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Ill-Health 

By 

BERNARD BERNARD 





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Editor, Author, Philosopher, Scientist. Idealist 
and Champion Wrestler 


BERNARD BERNARD 












Eating to Correct 
Ill-Health 


By 

BERNARD BERNARD, 

Phys. B., M. S. P., M. P. C. (Lond.) 
Author of 

“Correct and Corrective Eating/' 
“Health and Fitness". 
(Editor of “Health and Life". 


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1924 

Health and Life Publications, 
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CONTENTS. 


INTRODUCTION. 

CHAPTER I. 

The Cause of All Diseases. 

CHAPTER II. 

Eating to Eliminate. 

CHAPTER III. 

Eating to Combat Consumption. 
Tuberculosis in Other Organs. 

CHAPTER IV. 

Goitre. 

CHAPTER V. 

Catarrh and Asthma. 

CHAPTER VI. 

Rheumatism. 

CHAPTER VII. 

Indigestion. 

CHAPTER VIII. 

Constipation. 

CHAPTER IX. 

Fatness and How to Reduce It. 

CHAPTER X. 

Thinness—And How to Put On Flesh. 

CHAPTER XI. 

Eczema. 

CHAPTER XII. 

Piles. 


CHAPTER XIII. 

High Temperature. 

CHAPTER XIV. 

Cancer. 

CHAPTER XV. 

Diabetes, 

CHAPTER XVI. 

Anaemia. 

CHAPTER XVII. 

Acidity. 

CHAPTER XVIII. 

Sex Weaknesses. 

CHAPTER XIX. 

Bad Breath. 

CHAPTER XX. 

Headache. 

CHAPTER XXI. 

Kidney and Bladder Trouble. 

CHAPTER XXII. 

High Blood Pressure. 

CHAPTER XXIII. 

Conclusion. 


INTRODUCTION. 


People are now convinced that ill 
health is caused by an impure blood 
stream: that disease is one of the 
efforts of Nature to rid the body of its 
poisons: and that the elimination of 
poisons and the supply of nutrition in 
such a way as to prevent autointoxica¬ 
tion of the body is the way to cure ill 
health. 

I am going to endeavor to explain in 
detail the methods which can he used 
to correct ill health by right eating. 
There are, of course, many cases of ill 
health that require very radical elim¬ 
ination in order that they may be eradi¬ 
cated. But most of the ordinary com¬ 
plaints to which flesh is heir are cur¬ 
able if only the eating habits are cor¬ 
rected. 

In my recent book, “Correct and 
Corrective Eating”, I outlined the 
principles of scientific food combina¬ 
tion. The old calorie theory, although 


6 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

having a certain amount of value, is 
absolutely useless when it comes down 
to a determination of foods necessary 
to the body. It is all very well to say 
that the body requires so many heat 
units, but it also requires certain min¬ 
eral elements which go to make up its 
constitution, and although a sufficiency 
of calories may be secured, unless these 
mineral elements are taken in with the 
food, ill health is sure to result. 

Of course, it will be taken for 
granted that the maintenance of health 
absolutely demands fresh air and ex¬ 
ercise. Before I begin, I want to make 
very clear that without fresh air and 
exercise a condition of real health is 
absolutely impossible. However, even 
in sedentary occupations, where there 
is very limited time for fresh air and 
exercise, correct eating habits will as¬ 
sure a maximum of vitality and health. 

It seems an extraordinary thing that, 
for thousands of years, people have 
realized that the food they eat goes to 
make up the body, yet it was not until 
recently that people were convinced 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 7 

that when they suffered some form of 
ill health it was possible that the food 
they eat and what became of it resulted 
in ill health. 

Today it is different, and many stu¬ 
dents of the diet question are making 
clear to people that there is a right of 
way to eat for health; but we must re¬ 
member that the science of eating is 
in its infancy. Every contribution to 
the subject of corrective eating should 
be greatly welcomed. 

I believe that the scientific food com¬ 
bination principles I have outlined in 
“Correct and Corrective Eating’’ will 
form the basis of all future study of 
the food question. Not that it is es¬ 
sential for a healthy and strong man, 
actively engaged in heavy work or 
athletic exercise; but for those who are 
confined to a sedentary occupation, or 
those who suffer with ill health on ac¬ 
count of prior wrong eating habits, 
that an adherence to the principles of 
food combination based on chemistry 
and outlined in “Correct and Correc¬ 
tive Eating”, is absolutely necessary. 


8 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

We have heard a great deal recently 
with regard to Insulin. A great deal 
has been claimed for it. However, the 
discoverers of Insulin do not claim 
anywhere near for it what the news¬ 
paper journalists and medical adver¬ 
tisers claim for it. Insulin is just 
used in the last stages of Diabetes at 
the Toronto General Hospital, hut it 
is not put forward as a positive cure 
by its discoverers and users. It is 
administered only because it burns up 
the sugars, and keeps down the symp¬ 
toms for the time being. 

In conjunction with Insulin, and 
even without it, where cases of dia¬ 
betes are being treated at the Toronto 
General Hospital, it is realized that 
diet is of supreme importance. How¬ 
ever, the diet given to such diabetes 
patients is absolutely out of the ques¬ 
tion. There is no idea at all of any 
scientific combination. Starches and 
proteins are eaten together, and given 
in such quanities as to ensure the con¬ 
tinuance of the complaint; not inten¬ 
tionally, of course, but really because 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 9 

the subject of corrective eating has 
been so little studied from a scientific 
standpoint, that is, from the chemical 
standpoint. Every child in school 
learns that acids and alkalies are op¬ 
posed. You cannot mix the two. If 
you do, one cancels the other out. 
Every school child taking elementary 
chemistry also knows that acids will 
dissolve away certain materials. Those 
same materials are not acted on by 
alkalies. On the other hand, the school 
child knows that certain materials are 
acted on by alkalies, and not touched 
by acids. 

Digestion works by the action of fer¬ 
ments, acids and alkalies. Certain 
foods require acid ferments, other 
foods require alkaline ferments. Is it 
not then foolish to mix these two 
classes of foods together and expect the 
stomach to perform a miracle? The 
child in the elementary chemistry class, 
if given a piece of calcium carbonate to 
dissolve away with Sulphuric Acid 
would not think of mixing the Sul¬ 
phuric Acid with Ammonia before he 


10 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

started to dissolve away the calcium 
carbonate. Yet people are always 
eating foods together which require 
the opposed ferments and it is no won¬ 
der that there is so much ill health. 

You can quite understand that, if 
foods requiring an acid ferment are 
mixed with those requiring an alkaline 
ferment, trouble is bound to be caused 
immediately. The least harm that can 
be done is for digestion to be retarded, 
but, even so, the food, if it remains in 
the body over a certain length of time, 
putrifies, and the putrid matter is ab¬ 
sorbed into the blood stream, and the 
blood stream becomes saturated with 
these poisons. 

Of course, the eliminating organs 
will get rid of a lot of poisons, espec¬ 
ially if plenty of exercise and fresh air 
are secured, but with the person of 
sedentary habits this does not take place 
so radically, and ill health comes as a 
quicker result. Even in those who do 
exercise and have heavy outdoor work 
to do, the constant saturation of the 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 11 


blood with putrefaction leaves the body 
in a condition ready to receive disease. 

Whether disease is associated with 
germs or not, the body must have the 
foundation for that disease. A body 
that is absolutely free from poisons, 
with the eliminating organs in healthy 
activity, with the lymphatic system 

functioning at full efficiency, won’t give 
germs a chance, because the body’s 

whole defensive forces will be too 

strong for them. However, take a body 
that is saturated with the putrefaction 
of undigested food, and the conditions 
are favorable to the disease. In the 
case of germs, the germs will find a 
splendid feeding ground, and thrive 

and grow until the body erupts, and an 
illness of a severe nature is the result. 

I want to make quite clear that the 
result of eating in accordance with the 
principles as outlined in this, and in 
my other book, are not speculative; 
they are positive. If you eat according 
to these principles, and you exercise 
and get fresh air, avoiding all forms 
direct infection, of course, you will not 


12 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

take disease. Again, if you are suffering 
from ill health, and you go through a 
course of elimination and careful diete¬ 
tic building up, provided your “come¬ 
back” is sufficiently strong, you can 
then enjoy the health you have been so 
ardently desiring. 

Nothing would please me better than 
to have the physicians take up the 
principles of corrective eating I have 
endeavored to expound. They would 
be surprised at the results. But of 
course they should be given a proper 
trial; that is, strictly according to the 
outline given in my books. 

On the face of it, it seems a very tall 
order to say that Tuberculosis can be 
cured. It can. Every physician knows 
that Tuberculosis has very, very fre¬ 
quently been cured. Often he does not 
know why; he simply calls it a freak 
of Nature, some accidental stimulation 
of the body defensive forces which 
stamp out the disease. Then why not, 
instead of putting this down to chance, 
find out the laws of chance in this re¬ 
spect and discover what the chance 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 13 

was which got rid of the complaint? 

The physician who studies closely 
will find that the body defensive forces 
were stimulated sufficiently to over¬ 
come the disease. The patient, per¬ 
haps, made some alteration in diet, 
changed his habits of breathing, got 
out into the fresh air, or exercised in 
a way to stimulate healthier metabol¬ 
ism, and so on. If all these matters 
are studied scientifically, and classified 
so that they can be applied properly, 
then there is a definite treatment for 
Tuberculosis. Every doctor knows that 
no medicine or serum can possibly cure 
Tuberculosis, in spite of all the adver¬ 
tised medical “cures.” Is it not then 
wise to give a little study to something 
which has been proven, to Nature, the 
healer of all diseases, so that we may 
have a humanity free from disease in 
the future, and so that those who do 
may know that they can go to a healer 
who can guide them to health once 
more. 

At present, the public is not satisfied 
with the healing profession. In spite 


14 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

of all the advertised “Cures” for Dia¬ 
betes, Cancer, Asthma, and so on, peo¬ 
ple are dying under treatment long be¬ 
fore they need. The public takes a lot 
from the newspapers when it reads of 
the cures, but when people find their 
friends dying from these same com¬ 
plaints, they begin to be dissatisfied 
with the methods now employed, and 
are ready to fly to any quack rather 
than an experienced practitioner. 

The greatest field for research, the 
field that promises the most hope is the 
study of eating. I hope to contribute a 
sufficiency of information to enable peo¬ 
ple to study for themselves the art of 
getting well, and once they are well, 
to keep well. 

When I was a boy, I was certified by 
my doctor as having heart disease. I 
suffered from piles, and it was gen¬ 
erally considered that I was to be a 
life-long invalid. I was not satisfied 
with allowing myself to be limited to 
the skill of the doctors. Perhaps I was 
revolutionary, but anyhow, I thought 
that T could possibly work out my own 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 15 

case better than anybody else could. 
I knew my own body. I had had it 
since the day I was born. I was famil¬ 
iar with every portion of it, in a super¬ 
ficial way. Well, then, I determined to 
make myself familiar with the inside 
of it, and its habits. I worked for years 
to find out the composition of my body, 
and I lived according to the ways I 
felt were improving me. 

Three years after a medical exam¬ 
ination refusing my admittance to an 
insurance Friendly Society, I was be¬ 
ginning to win Wrestling Champion¬ 
ships, and finding in the reports of 
my wrestling contests the news that I 
was considered the strongest wrestler 
in the world at my particular weight. 

I know that what I have done you 
can do, and every other mortal can 
do. I would like to see people in con¬ 
trol of their own bodies, knowing the 
treatment that suits them best, car¬ 
ing for their bodies, as carefully—no, 
more carefully—as they do for their 
automobiles or their domestic pets. 

When people begin to understand 


16 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

their own bodies, we shall have much 
less disease in the world. Matters of 
sanitation are important to the com¬ 
munity, and as such must be controlled 
by an executive council, but each person 
is responsible for his own body, and he 
should take an interest in it, and keep 
it the clean, healthy and beautiful thing 
it ought to be. 

Talking of sanitation, if you were to 
read the history of infectious diseases, 
you would find that they have disap¬ 
peared in direct ratio to the improve¬ 
ments in sanitation. Wherever the 
swamps have been cleaned up in tropi¬ 
cal places, Malaria has been diminished 
in proportion. In the Middle Ages, 
when there was no good system of 
sanitation, plagues and epidemics were 
inevitable. We owe our freedom from 
plagues and epidemics directly to our 
improvements in sanitation. However, 
there is still a great deal of filth, and 
insanitary conditions generally are pre¬ 
vailing, and while we have these, we 
are bound to have disease. The poor 
and uneducated people are often com- 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 17 

pelled to allow their homes to get into 
a filthy condition, thus breeding dis¬ 
ease. The rich allow their own bodies 
to get into a filthy condition, making 
them insanitary by eating all sorts of 
foods which rot and putrefy in the 
alimentary canal, and become absorbed 
into the tissues. 

The health of the community, for 
which community officials are respon- 
sibe, rests in the sanitation of towns 
and cities. The health of the individual 
rests in his own internal sanitation. 
The alimentary canal may be likened 
unto a sewer. It should be kept clean 
throughout. If it becomes choked up, 
all the side channels leading to and 
from it become contaminated. The 
blood which is fed by it absorbs its 
filth. Is it, then, any wonder that the 
person suffers from disease? The re¬ 
markable thing is not that there is dis¬ 
ease, but that there is so little of it. 
The human body is a wonderful thing, 
and Nature does all she can to keep it 
in a good and healthy condition. When 


18 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

we begin to assist Nature, we shall 
never more fear disease. 

You can enjoy abundant health, su¬ 
preme vitality, vigorous strength, if 
you live according to the laws of Na¬ 
ture. These include exercise, fresh 
air, hygiene, and correct eating; and 
possibly the most important of these 
is eating. Cut out bad habits of eat¬ 
ing. Eat only wholesome foods which 
have not been robbed of their vital 
elements by commercial practices. Eat 
according to the principles of scientific 
food combination. Get plenty of fresh 
fruit and fresh vegetable foods at all 
times. Don’t be a glutton, but learn 
to enjoy the fresh rich juices of fresh 
fruit, and to taste the rich sweetness of 
nuts and vegetables, and you will get 
more enjoyment out of your eating than 
ever you believed possible. 

Right eating habits do not entail the 
doing without so much as you would 
imagine. You can eat as much as you 
like, so long as you eat properly, so 
long as you get the right kind of food. 
You can enjoy your meals; in fact, you 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 19 

will enjoy them better, if you eat prop¬ 
erly. Most of the gluttons never really 
taste their food. They have to saturate 
their dishes with condiments of all de¬ 
scriptions, in order to get any taste at 
all. They never appreciate the real 
taste of their food; they get only the 
flavor of sauces, of salt and pepper, 
mustard, and other junk. The person 
who eats properly, knows the luscious¬ 
ness of fresh celery, parsnips, turnips, 
carrots; he knows the sweetness of the 
nut, because his taste is not contamin¬ 
ated, and because his body is clean and 
receptive of nutrition. 

The object of this book, therefore, is 
not to tell people to go without food, or 
to stop enjoying their meals. It is 
going to do a great deal towards help¬ 
ing them to enjoy their meals more, 
for they will have a healthy appetite, 
and they will know how to have their 
foods served so as to get the maximum 
of taste and nourishment from them. 
Good digestion will “wait on appetite, 
and good health on both.” 












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CHAPTER I. 


The Cause of All Diseases. 

The fundamental cause of all disease 
is auto-intoxication. It has been proved 
that if the blood stream is kept abso¬ 
lutely in a good condition, the body is 
immune to disease. Allow that person’s 
blood to become saturated with the 
poisons from the body’s own manu¬ 
facture, or from absorption of the 
alimentary contents in a state of 
putrefaction, and the same person be¬ 
comes liable to disease. The form that 
the disease will take depends, to a 
great extent, on hereditary predis¬ 
position; it depends to a less extent, 
upon local irritation and exposure to 
infection. 

Hereditary predisposition may be set 
down as diathesis. A person may have 
a catarrhal diathesis, and the result of 
his auto-intoxication will be asthma or 
catarrh, or one of the catarrhal com¬ 
plaints. Another person will suffer 


22 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

from consumption; another from cancer. 

In the past, pathologists, and mem¬ 
bers of the healing profession have 
given their attention almost entirely to 
the discussion of pathological con¬ 
ditions and symptoms of complaints, 
although maintaining the importance of 
attacking causes. The cancer is the 
symptom; tuberculosis is the symptom; 
catarrh is the symptom; hut all have 
the fundamental cause of auto-intoxi¬ 
cation. 

It stands to reason, therefore, that 
the cause, eradication of auto-intoxi¬ 
cation, ought to engage the attention 
and study of the healing profession, 
and of those who wish to make them¬ 
selves well. If we can find out how it 
is possible to eradicate the poisons, and 
then prevent their manufacture and 
absorption by the blood, then we have 
mastered disease. It is obvious, then, 
that the subject which should practically 
monopolize our study is that of auto¬ 
intoxication, its eradication and pre¬ 
vention, and we shall see that the main 
cause of auto-intoxication lies in hap- 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 23 


hazard eating coupled with lack of 
exercise and fresh air. 

It has been demonstrated that food 
which remains in the body undigested 
after a certain time putrefies, and then, 
iF~it is not immediately evacuated, it 
finds its way into the blood stream. 
That is the most frequent way that 
auto-intoxication is set up. When the 
poison is in the blood, however, the 
body forces may yet strive hard to 
counteract this poison. In fact, they 
do this, as hard as they can. That is 
why people are not so frequently ill 
as they deserve to be. Much of it is 
burned up by the oxygen breathed in 
by the lungs, and it is possible to detect 
a difference in the strength of the com¬ 
plaint if fresh air is taken away from 
the patient, or administered. 

Sometimes, lack of fresh air is the 
deciding factor in the cause of a 
disease. In the incipient stages of 
tuberculosis it is found that the ad¬ 
ministration of ozone sometimes has 
the effect of burning up the waste 


24 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

matters, with the consequent dis¬ 
appearance of the tuberculosis. 

R. B. Pearson, in his “ Fasting, and 
Man’s Correct Diet”, explaining in de¬ 
tail the effects he felt when fasting and 
eating, describes how, when he denied 
himself fresh air, he could eat much 
less food than when he walked and 
took fresh air. This is, of course, what 
one would expect, for the fresh air 
can bum up poisons, and therefore 
allow the body to take more food. Be¬ 
sides, anybody knows that if he goes 
for a long hike in the country, he comes 
back with a good appetite, which is 
just an indication of the varying ratio 
of fresh air to appetite for foods able 
to be taken by the body. 

However, R. B. Pearson also states 
that the condition of his catarrh was 
also affected by the fresh air taken. 
When he remained indoors all day, even 
while fasting, he made less progress, 
and his complaint was more pro¬ 
nounced than when he took a hike into 
the fresh air. 

So fresh air is a very important food 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 25 


anyway, and the more of it a person 
gets, the better it is for him. The best 
way to work np an appetite is to go out 
for a walk in the fresh air; to do a 
few deep breathing exercises, inhaling 
to the full extent of the lungs, then 
exhaling to the full extent of the lungs. 
A few long, deep breaths of that nature 
you will find a wonderful stimulant, 
and better than any sort of medical 
anti-toxin as a preventive of disease. 

Proteins cause auto-intoxication very 
speedily if they are taken in too great 
abundance, especially if they are mixed 
with other kinds of foods. Meat 
especially is a dangerous protein to 
overindulge in. Good fresh meat from 
a healthy animal may be quite alright, 
provided it is eaten in scientific combi¬ 
nation or alone, but there is of course 
an aesthetic reason from refraining 
from eating flesh food. Those who de¬ 
sire to do without meat may easily do 
so without handicapping themselves re¬ 
garding the securing of nutrition. Nuts 
are just as nutritious a protein as 
meat. Cheese, eggs, and other dairy 


26 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

foods provide just as much nutrition 
also in a much less harmful form. 

However, meat is a food, and until 
we have become civilized enough to re¬ 
frain from killing dumb animals and 
eating their dead carcases, I suppose 
people will not make full use of these 
other foods. But if meat is eaten as 
today, and mixed with all sorts of 
starches, then it can only create havoc 
and disease. 

Meat remains a long time in the body, 
much longer than vegetable food. It 
goes bad much more quickly than vege¬ 
table food. It is a better medium for 
the production and sustenance of germs 
than vegetable food. It sets up auto¬ 
intoxication much more quickly than 
can vegetable food. 

Therefore, one of the first essentials 
in the eradication of auto-intoxication 
is the strict limitation of protein con¬ 
coctions. In a case where there is 
actual ill health, it will be necessary to 
refrain from partaking of proteins for 
several weeks at a time, until the whole 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 27 


of the poison attacking the body has 
been eliminated. 

Good, healthy blood is alkaline, and 
antiseptic; that is, germs cannot live in 
healthy, alkaline blood. Nearly every 
disease is associated with an acid con¬ 
dition of the blood. We call it an acid 
condition although it may not always 
be actually acid. It may simply be that 
the normal alkalinity has lessened, and 
if you lessen this alkalinity, you lessen 
the vitality of the blood to resist dis¬ 
ease. In some instances, you can 
actually have an acid irritating medium 
instead of a healthy alkaline medium. 
When such attacks the nerves, you feel 
plenty of jumps in your neuralgia or 
rheumatism. 

The alkalinity of the blood is lessened 
by the over-indulgence in starchy foods, 
but especially in the over-indulgence in 
starchy foods which have been robbed 
of their vital elements. The commercial 
production of food necessitates pro¬ 
ducing it in such a way as to permit it 
to be stored for a considerable time 
without going bad. In other words, it 


28 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

has to be preserved. The best way to 
preserve starchy food is to take all the 
life oat of it. This is jast what is 
done; and this is why we have the 
beantifnl white floar, polished rice, 
pearl barley, and lots of other foods 
that will readily occar to yoa. They 
are simply in that beantifnl condition 
becaase they have been robbed of their 
vital elements, becaase they have no 
life in them. If they contained the 
whole of the food, they woald go bad 
on the shelf in the miller’s storehoase, 
and woald depreciate. 

The conseqaence is that the ordinary 
hoasewife has a hard job of it naming 
aroand trying to see if she can get 
fresh food. The food that is foisted 
on to her has been robbed of its vital 
elements, the most important part for 
health. 

After all, if yoa think oat the matter 
for y oar self, yoa will qaite see that if 
food is preserved so that it will not 
disintegrate while kept in a store¬ 
hoase, it will also preserve in yoar 
body, and not disintegrate. 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 29 


The point I want to drive home now 
is the way over-indulgence in starches 
assists in auto-intoxication. 

Not only devitalized starches, but 
ordinary whole meal starches may 
cause a lessening of the normal 
alkalinity of the blood, and serve to 
set up auto-intoxication. This occurs 
when several of them are mixed at the 
same meal, and also if too many are 
taken in the diet generally. Once a 
day is enough to take starchy food; 
that is, bread, potatoes, and such like 
foods. If you have one meal at which 
you have a good feed of starchy food, 
that is sufficient for that day. You 
will be able to eat just as much as you 
like of the food, provided you do not 
mix it with other kinds of food. 

However, the very worst thing a per¬ 
son can do, and it is what ninety-nine 
out of every hundred people actually 
do—is to take an acid fruit at the same 
meal that starch is taken. This imme¬ 
diately sets up a fermentation. You 
can test it for yourself in a test tube. 
Just take some grape fruit, or lemon 


30 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

juice, and put a little piece of white 
bread in with it. You can almost see 
the fermentation taking place. If you 
want to make the experiment on your¬ 
self, take some bread and lemon juice, 
mix them, and try to eat them, and 
just notice how you feel. Well, if you 
mix up a few other foods, and you 
don ’t notice the inconvenience par¬ 
ticularly, your stomach will, and later, 
you will sutler from catarrh, rheu¬ 
matism, or some other complaint. 

I was surprised the other day when 
I read of a specialist in catarrh who 
actually gave his patients acid fruits 
to eat at the same meal with starches. 
He thought that meat was the cause of 
all disease. It is no wonder that his 
patients lose faith in him, and in drug¬ 
less healing, for the man calls himself 
a drugless healer. However, he is no 
different from thousands of other 
doctors who advise the same thing. 
Many take no trouble to advise any 
sort of diet, and think that it doesn’t 
matter what goes into the body, and 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 31 

simply tamper about with the symp¬ 
toms, instead of attacking the cause. 

The fermentation set up by the 
starches need not take place directly, 
as explained above. They may still 
ferment in the stomach on coming in 
contact with the acid ferments there 
which go to digest the protein foods. 
That is one reason why I insist that 
starches and proteins be eaten at dif¬ 
ferent meals in the ideal diet. 

One of the curious things about auto¬ 
intoxication set up through wrong 
methods of eating is that the patient 
feels abnormally hungry. It seems 
absolutely impossible for him to go 
without food for five or six hours at a 
stretch. Moreover, he feels that he has 
to fill his stomach right full, otherwise 
he is continuously hungry. 

The mere fact that he wants to eat 
seems sufficient reason to some people 
to warant extra eating. However, the 
only reason he wants to eat is that, as 
soon as the stomach contents become a 
little low, the putrid matter begins to 
make itself known, and he feels un- 


32 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

comfortable. The irritating putrid 
mass demands dilution, and the only 
way to dilute it is to add more junk 
to it. Thus actual vomiting is kept at 
bay by overfeeding. 

This is a very important point to 
remember, because most people will be 
against a fast because the moment 
they stop eating they feel nauseated, 
whereas, they lose their sickness while 
the stomach is full. 

Most people will tell you, that if you 
have to cross the sea, and you are 
anxious not to be seasick, the best plan 
is not to eat anything, and then you 
won’t feel sick. They are absolutely 
wrong. If you don’t want to be vio¬ 
lently sick, your best plan is to fill your 
stomach; but, of course, this won’t do 
you any good. If you undertake a sea 
voyage, and you don’t eat anything, 
and you become violently sick, pro¬ 
vided there is not too much strain upon 
your constitution, the journey won’t do 
you the least bit of harm. In fact, it 
will do quite a lot to get rid of poisons, 
and provided you keep the alimentary 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 33 


canal clean; that is, keep yourself free 
from constipation, the cleaning up you 
get from the sea voyage will be most 
beneficial. 

Immediately a person stops eating, 
the poisons make themselves violently 
and unmistakeably known. Nausea is 
one of the first symptoms. After a 
day or so, the tongue turns white or a 
dirty yellow, the breath becomes more 
putrid than ever, and the desire to eat 
disappears. At such a time, the ali¬ 
mentary canal must be cleaned through 
continuously. Draughts of water, orange 
juice and water, vegetable juice and 
water will serve best for this purpose, 
and enemas will help to clean out the 
large intestine and rectum. 

This is interesting, because it demon¬ 
strates the body’s natural function and 
method of throwing otf poisons. An¬ 
other thing is that if a fever is pro¬ 
duced, the poisons are burnt up more 
rapidly, and if the eliminating organs 
are stimulated to their highest efficiency 
and capacity, the body will speedily 
clean up. 


34 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

One of the methods of stimulating 
elimination is the hot bath. Recently, 
the Marathon Bath; that is, a con¬ 
tinuous hot shower lasting several 
hours, has come to be popular. What 
happens in such a bath is that the body 
temperature is raised, perspiration 
made active. The increased tempera¬ 
ture helps to burn up the poisons much 
more quickly than in the normal con¬ 
dition, and the hot bath as a factor Tn 
the elimination of ill health is one 
which should not be overlooked by 
those who are striving to rid their 
bodies of poisons which are causing 
their malady. 

So then it is seen that auto-intoxi¬ 
cation is the cause of all disease. Keep 
the blood stream pure and clean, and 
no disease can attack you. What we 
have to do is to maintain at as high a 
point of efficiency as possible a pure, 
clean, blood stream. This is the 
essence of preventive hygiene. If your 
body is clean inside and outside, if it is 
nourished by healthy alkaline blood, 
then you need fear no disease germ 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 35 

carrier. Of course, it is taken for 
granted that no contact with the filth of 
disease should be made voluntarily. 
You can take a person with good, 
healthy, clean blood, and inject suffi¬ 
cient filth into him, and give him dis¬ 
ease. But the thing to do is to refrain 
from making the poisons in one’s own 
body, and then to refrain from being 
infected directly through the blood. 

This point is very essential to re¬ 
member because of what are called 
“Social” diseases. The reason these 
are spread is that the disease is directly 
transferred from the blood of one per¬ 
son to that of another. That is in¬ 
fection of a direct nature, and is not a 
fair test of the doctrine I am trying 
to expound. It is also a condemnation 
of what is known as preventive 
medicine, where the injection of filth 
is made so as to strengthen the body 
forces for further attacks upon them 
of infectious diseases. The best way 
to prevent disease is to keep the blood 
stream pure, and to keep free of in¬ 
fection. 


36 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

However, the preventive means of 
injecting sernm and so forth is not so 
preventive as the vendors of serums 
would have you believe. In fact, it is 
very likely that they lower the vitality 
to such a degree as to make a person 
more liable to the disease that they are 
supposed to prevent. At any rate, 
statistics compiled by unbiased ob¬ 
servers seem to bear out that idea, as 
well as the commonsense reasoning of 
it. The man who is never ill because 
he keeps his body tit and strong is cer¬ 
tainly in a better position to resist 
disease than the one who is continuously 
suffering from small complaints. 

You will perhaps say:—“Well, I 
know of many men who have never 
suffered from anything in their lives, 
until they finally became very ill, and 
could not stand it, and died.” Yes, 
that is all very well, but the point is 
somewhat different. Disease is, as I 
have stated, often the endeavor of the 
body to eradicate the poisons, and so 
people who are suffering continuously 
from petty complaints get rid of a lot 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 37 

of poisons that way, and never allow 
their bodies to become very putrid; 
whereas the man who is strong enough 
to ward off these little complaints saves 
up these poisons until he has the whole 
dose in one shot, and then he succumbs 
to it. 

The difference is, that the man who 
was never unwell hadn’t a clean blood 
stream, but his body forces were able 
to resist the eruptions that occurred in 
the weaker man. But what I am try¬ 
ing to explain is that if the body is 
kept in a normal healthy condition, the 
blood stream kept pure and clean by 
right eating and healthy elimination, 
there is no reason why a person should 
not live all through life without any 
illness of any description, and live at 
least one hundred years. 

The eradication of ill health means 
stopping first of all further auto-intoxi¬ 
cation, and the elimination of the toxins 
existing in the body through faulty 
prior habits of eating, and wrong liv¬ 
ing generally. The mere correction of 
the diet is not sufficient where the dis- 


38 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

ease is in a chronic form. Radical 
elimination is at first necessary, and 
what has to be done is to limit the 
foods which are responsible for the 
auto-intoxication, and to take only such 
.foods as assist elimination and the 
building up of the elements of which 
the patient has been starved. 

Most people are overfed, yet starved. 
This seems a paradox, but it is true. 
When a person overeats, the nourish¬ 
ment cannot go to build up healthy 
tissue. Moreover, the man who over¬ 
eats very frequently refrains from 
taking the fresh fruit and fresh vege¬ 
table foods, rich in vitamines and 
mineral salts, so essential to the 
healthy body. The consequence is that 
he is over supplied with proteins and 
starches, and absolutely starving for 
the want of vital elements and mineral 
salts. 

Wliat he usually does it to go to the 
doctor to try to get his iron, or 
potassium, or some other element ad¬ 
ministered in a crude state. But it is 
a law of biology that elements in their 


Eating to Correct Ill-Heai/th 39 

crude state cannot be assimilated by 
the body. If you want to get iron into 
your body, you have got to eat foods 
containing iron salts, and your body 
will take the iron from the foods as 
required. The administration of drugs 
and minerals is absolutely speculative, 
and faulty in the extreme. It is against 
all biological law, and all science. It is 
unscientific. One of the first principles 
of physiology is that the body can 
digest and assimilate only foods of 
living organisms. You can eat iron 
filings, and absorb no iron; that is, in 
a way that would do your body any 
good, but if you take spinach and 
lettuce, and celery, your body itself 
will take the iron contained in those 
foods. But here again, you have to> 
take these foods properly. If you take 
them just as a little make-weight in a 
meal consisting of soup, fish, poultry, 
meat, potatoes, bread, and several 
other kinds of starches and proteins 
all mixed, the putrefaction set up will 
rob your body of any chances of ab- 


40 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

sorbing the necessary mineral elements 
from the fresh food taken. That is a 
very important point to remember also. 


CHAPTER II. 

Eating to Eliminate. 

Elimination is the first step in the 
cure of ill health, and it is not so much 
what you eat that assists elimination, 
as what you do not eat. It is well to 
remember that the body cannot elimi¬ 
nate, and assimilate at the same time. 

However, the average person suffer¬ 
ing from ill health does so because he 
is poisoned by the superabundance of 
some kinds of food, and starvation of 
others. The absolute essential for 
elimination is to refrain from eating 
proteins and starches, that is, foods 
containing starch and proteins, or com¬ 
posed mainly of starches and proteins. 
The proteins, you will remember, are 
responsible for rapid putrefaction and 
auto-intoxication. The starches may 
have been responsible for lessening the 
alkalinity of the blood. 

For very radical elimination, the 
stoppage of all foods should be made. 


42 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

In other words, a fast should be under¬ 
taken. But there is a wrong way and 
a right way of taking a fast. A fast 
may do harm, if it is not undertaken 
scientifically, and there are many points 
concerning the fast which should be 
well understood before such radical 
elimination is sought as during a fast. 
Nevertheless, the fast is very satis¬ 
factory, and is sufficient proof that it 
is not so much what you eat as what 
you do not eat which causes the elimi¬ 
nation of the condition of ill health. 

People suffering from auto-intoxi¬ 
cation are usually lacking in minerals 
essential to the body. To endeavor to 
administer these in their crude state is 
not satisfactory; in fact, it is useless. 
But they can be administered if taken 
in the composition of live foods, and 
we find them particularly plentiful and 
rich in such foods as onions, spinach, 
etc. 

Moreover, such fresh vegetables as 
onions, spinach, celery, leeks, and so 
forth, are helpful in restoring the 
normal alkalinity of the blood, and in 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 43 

setting into action the organs of elimi¬ 
nation. That is why I talk about eat¬ 
ing to eliminate, because on the face of 
it most students of eating will say that 
there is no such thing as eating to 
eliminate, that a fast is absolutely 
essential. A fast is exceedingly good, 
but some greater wonders have been 
performed by means of the eating of 
pure fresh vegetables alone than by the 
fast alone. The fast is exceedingly use¬ 
ful for setting into action the eliminat¬ 
ing organs, and to prevent further auto¬ 
intoxication from the alimentary canal 
while it is being cleaned through. But 
when the body craves some minerals, 
then the only way to get them into the 
body is to eat the foods containing 
them. 

Thus, by a considerable period when 
only such foods as orange juice, lemon 
juice, or grape fruit juice, onions, 
spinach, cabbage, lettuce and other 
fresh vegetable foods have been eaten 
sparingly, such serious complaints as 
tuberculosis, asthma, rheumatism, dia- 


44 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

betes, and even epilepsy have been, to 
my knowledge, cured. 

This is something not to be over¬ 
looked. If, after two thousand years 
of dabbling in the speculations of 
medicines and the artificial admini¬ 
stration of crude minerals, crude ele¬ 
ments, the leaders of such studies have 
admitted hopelessness and inability by 
such methods to cure definitely and 
positively, then the subject of eating 
for the cure of ill health is something 
which should engage the attention of 
all serious minded people, and especially 
physicians and those who have made 
healing their profession. 

However, there is no reason why you 
should not be your own doctor. You 
ought to understand your own body 
better than any other person can 
possibly do. It is just a little common 
sense that is needed, and a little con¬ 
scientious study of your body and its 
habits. 

As editor of “Health and Life”, I 
receive thousands of letters from de¬ 
lighted people who have followed the 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 45 

principles we expound in that magazine. 
Those principles are adherence to the 
laws of Nature. Many are the stories 
which roll in of men and women who 
were invalids, suffering from terrible 
diseases, and all the complaints you 
can imagine. They testify to the truth 
of what I am writing in this hook, and 
the gospel of the culture of the body I 
am endeavoring to expound in all my 
works. There is no doubt about it at 
all. Men given up by doctors because 
of tuberculosis become almost fanatical 
in their adherence to this cause because 
they have seen in their own bodies the 
results of what is, after all, just com¬ 
mon sense. 

Most of the commercialized food that 
is thrust on to the public has been 
robbed of its essential nutriment. 
White flour is a poison. There is not 
the slightest doubt about it. A dog 
dies more quickly when fed on white 
flour or white flour products alone than 
if he were given no food at all. You 
yourself could live longer eating noth¬ 
ing than you could if you ate white 


46 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

bread alone. Yet yon possibly feed 
your children this poison, and eat it 
yourself, and then wonder why you are 
unwell. 

The human body is a wonderful 
thing, and Nature is indeed kind. That 
is why there is not more ill health than 
there is today. We often wonder why 
the health of the community does not 
improve as civilization progresses. It 
is indeed a ghastly enigma to many 
doctors, because, while they realize the 
improvements that have been made in 
sanitation, and in personal hygiene, 
they overlook the fact that never before 
have people lived on such bad food as 
they are doing today. In the olden days 
people had fresh foods. They ate their 
vegetables directly as they came out of 
the garden; their meat was always 
home killed. Today, most people have 
their meat canned, and their vegetables 
canned if they have any at all; they 
eat their potatoes peeled, robbing them¬ 
selves of important mineral elements 
contained in the peel, and also of those 
lost in boiling, the water containing 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 47 

these useful mineral salts being thrown 
down the sewer. 

Bice is polished to make it look good, 
but the rice polishings contain essential 
nourishment which is thrown away in¬ 
stead of being eaten. The natives of 
the Philippine Islands were detected to 
suffer from beri beri only because they 
were fed on polished rice. Polished 
rice is no longer allowed in the Philip¬ 
pine Islands. Only the unpolished kind 
can be bought there, and beri beri is 
now unknown. The cause of beri beri 
was discovered to be that the Philip¬ 
pines ate so much of the polished rice, 
and the disease disappeared when they 
were fed on the polishings of the rice 
instead of the rice. 

On the German troopship “Kron 
Prinz” the crew were found to be suf¬ 
fering from an unknown disease. None 
of the physicians who had been making 
years of profound studies in the realms 
of medicine could make anything of this 
disease. They tried all the serums 
they knew of, and administered medi¬ 
cines. Still the patients died. It was 


48 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

not until Alfred McCann went down 
and made enquiries into the diet of 
the crew that light was forthcoming. 
He discovered that the crew had been 
living chiefly on potatoes; that the 
potatoes had been peeled, the peels 
thrown away, and the insides only had 
been eaten, after they had been boiled, 
and the water thrown away as well. 
McCann set to, had the potatoes peeled, 
the insides thrown away, and the peel¬ 
ings boiled. The patients suffering 
from the disease were then fed on the 
boiled peelings and the water in which 
they had been cooked. Every patient 
dealt with in this way was restored to 
health. This clearly shows that people 
who peel potatoes and throw away the 
peels are robbing themselves of the 
essential elements, and are robbing 
themselves still more if they throw 
away the water in which the potatoes 
have been boiled. 

In my hook, “Healthier and Better 
Cookery”, in which my wife has 
collaborated with me, we have en¬ 
deavored to give some nourishing 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 49 

dishes in which we show how potatoes 
should he eaten so as to be thoroughly 
enjoyed, and at the same time so as to 
secure the maximum of nourishment 
from them. At present, the way 
potatoes are eaten makes them almost 
purely a poison, and the cause of much 
of the catarrh which is so prevalent in 
this country today. Potatoes should be 
cooked in their jackets or should be 
baked, and the whole of the potato 
eaten. 

Our milk is boiled before we get it, 
at least it is raised to such a tempera¬ 
ture as to kill the live elements in the 
milk. This again appears to be neces¬ 
sary because of the conditions of civili¬ 
zation, where the bad feeding of cows 
puts the animals into an unhealthy con¬ 
dition frequently, and the handling of 
milk allows it to get contaminated. The 
best way to take milk is straight from 
the healthy cow without any boiling or 
anything else. 

The great thing to remember is that 
if the alimentary canal is clean, and if 
the food is eaten in the right combi- 


50 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

nation, then it can do no harm. As a 
matter of fact, even milk which con¬ 
tains bacilli cannot possibly injure a 
healthy person, provided his blood 
stream is pure and alimentary tract 
clean. The bacteria will be broken 
down by the digestive ferments, and by 
the other bacilli and juices along the 
alimentary tract. This has been proven 
ever so many times. Some years ago, 
when the germ theory began to indicate 
what havoc it intended to play with the 
health and the liberty of the individual, 
some biological professors made ex¬ 
periments to show that germs could not 
possibly do any harm if taken with 
food. To prove it, they had a culture 
of typhoid germs prepared, and with¬ 
out hesitation, they ate these germs. 
Another thing to bear in mind is, that 
they were not inoculated. At the same 
time, there was a typhoid epidemic sup¬ 
posed to be raging, and, while other 
people were being inoculated and scar¬ 
ing themselves into typhoid fever, these 
professors were walking about having 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 51 

eaten the germs, and not one of them 
suffered from typhoid fever. 

It is when poisons get into the blood 
stream that havoc is caused. If you 
were to transfer any of the food you 
eat directly into the blood stream, it 
would poison you. If you were to get 
the blood of an ox, and inject a table- 
spoonful into your veins, it would kill 
you, but you can eat the blood of that 
ox, and your digestive and assimilative 
organs will build it up into the same 
blood which nourishes your own body. 

This shows that the only way to get 
at the root of body nutrition is through 
the alimentary canal, and it is the only 
way to get at the cause of ill health 
and to eradicate that cause. 

There may be quite a lot of truth in 
the fact that, if you suffer from a 
slight dose of a disease, your body 
forces, in the fighting of that disease, 
may be strengthened to the point where 
they can resist another attack by the 
same kind of germ. But, after all, 
what is the good of it? Is it not better 
to keep the blood stream pure, so that 


52 Eating to Correct Ill-Heai/th 

there is no danger at all! Is it not 
better to keep the blood stream free 
from the toxins and serums which are 
only foreign bodies, and must have 
some biological detriment! 

In the first stages of elimination then, 
it is necessary to refrain from eating 
all those foods which are known to be 
poison makers. They are chiefly:— 
white flour, polished rice, pearl barley, 
peeled potatoes, all canned foods and 
preserved foods, tapioca, sago, vermi¬ 
celli, noodles, semolina, white sugar, 
and so on. It is also essential to re¬ 
frain from taking starches and proteins. 
But, to make up, it is quite permissible 
to eat those foods which we know to be 
rich in vital salts, for lack of which the 
body is starving. 

While it is a good plan to limit the 
quantities of even these fresh vege¬ 
tables, there can be very little harm 
done by eating as much of them as the 
patient desires. This is a very con¬ 
soling thing to know, because the aver¬ 
age person who suffers from some 
chronic complaint is usually a heavy 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 53 


eater, and when you tell him that he 
has to refrain from eating, he just 
wants to throw your prescription at 
you, and walk out, and find somebody 
who is going to give him a bottle of 
medicine containing some mysterious 
devil that will drive out the other devil 
of disease. If you tell him that he can 
eat just as much as he likes, as long 
as he eats only of the sort of food that 
is good for him, he may be willing to 
try and follow your rules. 

Continuous feeding on these fresh 
vegetables cannot possibly do any harm. 
There is no need to take any notice of 
abnormal alkalinity, as indicated in the 
urine or in the perspiration. The body 
is saturated with acid products, and the 
extra alkalinity is necessary in order to 
establish the correction necessary. The 
main thing to see is that the alimentary 
canal is kept cleaned through. That is 
possibly the most important point of 
all, because as soon as the foodless 
foods and starches and proteins are cut 
down, the poisons begin to be thrown 
violently into the alimentary canal. If 


54 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

then the alimentary canal is washed 
through with fresh vegetables and the 
bowels kept in action, as they will be 
in this way, without resort to any drug 
or opening medicine, perhaps the use of 
an enema being essential, then sooner 
or later, the body will clean up. 

The time that it takes to eliminate a 
complaint depends upon the time it has 
taken to develop it. You can’t attack 
something that has taken a whole life 
time to bring about, and expect to 
eliminate it in a couple of days, or even 
a week. It needs sometimes months in 
such a case. However, I have seen 
tuberculosis cleaned up in from six to 
eight weeks; goitres, gall stones, and 
adenoids in six weeks; eczema in four 
weeks; and asthma even in two weeks. 

The main thing is to continue faith¬ 
fully with the fresh vegetable diet. 
After a time, it may be varied with 
acid fruits, which, provided they are 
not canned, will only do good. 

It is very important to remember 
that, as soon as the symptoms of the 
complaint disappear, is not the time to 


Eating to Correct IlltHeai/th 55 

give up the diet, and start eating any 
old junk again. It is essential to keep 
on considerably after the symptoms 
have disappeared, and the patient 
should never be allowed to fall back 
into the old ways of eating, because if 
he does he can be quite sure of develop¬ 
ing his complaint again. Eternal 
vigilance is necessary to preserve 
health, but the right way to eat is quite 
simple and pleasurable. There is no 
reason why you should not have every¬ 
thing that you wish, that is of the 
wholesome foods, and eat just as much 
as you wish, provided the combinations 
are scientific, and in accordance with 
the principles given in my “Correct 
and Corrective Eating”. If this is 
done, there need be no fear of a return 
of the complaint, always assuming, of 
course, that fresh air and exercise are 
indulged in, and that the body is not 
abused in any other way, or subject to 
further direct infection. 

The difficulty of the fast is that it 
has to be so carefully undertaken. The 
fresh fruit and fresh vegetable diet I 


56 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

am endeavoring to popularize is not at 
all difficult. It can go on indefinitely, 
or else it can be broken off so long as 
scientific dieting follows, at any time 
desired. It is different with the fast. 
If you begin a fast, to get the results 
you’ve got to go right the way through 
with it. If you don’t, you can do 
yourself more injury than good. As 
soon as the fast is begun, the tongue 
goes yellow, the alimentary canal be¬ 
comes putrid because of the poisons 
which are thrown into it from all the 
emunctories of the body. 

A fast may last anything from twenty 
to sixty days, and there is very little 
danger of starvation up to the period 
of forty days. There is quite a dis¬ 
tinct line of demarcation between fast¬ 
ing and starving. During a fast, the 
temperature is either normal or above 
normal. As soon as starvation sets in, 
the temperature becomes sub-normal, 
and it is essential then to stop the fast 
immediately. 

However, many overfed persons are 
starved, and the symptoms of the 


Eating to Corbect Ill-Health 57 

starvation are seen in the tuberculosis, 
the eczema, in the cancer even, or other 
complaints which are the results of the 
poisonous auto-intoxication due to over- 
indulgence in poisonous foods. 

In a fast, it is also essential to keep 
the alimentary canal cleaned through 
all the time. This must be done with 
draughts of water and enemas, but in 
the case of a common complaint, the 
result is often far more satisfactory 
if the fresh fruit and fresh vegetable 
diet is taken instead of the fast. The 
fast is absolutely essential during fevers 
and eruptions, however. 

The diagnosis of one’s own condition 
is something which ought to engage the 
attention. There are certain well de¬ 
fined signs which show exactly the con¬ 
dition of the body, and it is necessary 
to know these, whether undergoing a 
fast, or, if taking the fruit and vege¬ 
table diet to eliminate ill health. 

The state of the alimentary canal 
always denotes the condition of the 
body. People who are saturated with 
their own auto-intoxications usually 


58 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

have vile smelling breath, indicating 
that, as high up as the stomach, every¬ 
thing is putrid. It is a valuable sign 
that something is wrong, and that the 
body wants cleaning up. Yet there are 
many people who disguise their breath, 
and take not the slightest trouble to 
eradicate the cause of this vile smelling 
exhalation. 

The next valuable sign is perhaps 
the tongue, which may be coated with 
a film of white/ or yellow, becoming 
even a dirty brown. 

The third sign that the body is putrid 
is the odor of the faeces. Not only the 
storage of fecalities in the bowels, may 
cause the stench, but also the putre¬ 
faction going on higher in the alimen¬ 
tary canal. 

Thus, in the eradication of ill health, 
we have three almost infallible signs 
as to the condition of the body. In 
undertaking the eating for health prin¬ 
ciples outlined, it is necessary to study 
each carefully. 

Naturally, at the beginning, these 
signs will be exaggerated, or at any 


Eating to Coerect Ill-Health 59 

rate more obvious. Immediately the 
body is given a chance to eliminate, it 
is only to be expected that the signs of 
the presence of the poisons will become 
more pronounced. 

However, in due time, the tongue be¬ 
comes clean, and red and healthy in 
appearance; the breath sweet and 
wholesome; the fecalities not objection¬ 
able in smell. The perspiration from 
the body is a valuable indication as to 
the physical condition. When the body 
is in a bad state, the perspiration has 
an objectionable odor, whereas when 
the body has cleaned up, and the blood 
stream is pure, the perspiration need 
not be at all objectionable in smell. 

The main thing to observe is that 
when the process of eliminative eating 
is once undertaken, it should not be 
stopped until all signs of impurity in 
the body, as indicated by these signs, 
have been cleaned away. 

The fast should not really be stopped 
until all these indications of impurity 
have disappeared. 

Another matter of great importance 


60 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

regarding the elimination of ill health 
is that the cleaning up is not usually a 
gradual process. A person may be 
getting along exceptionally well, and 
then have a relapse. The relapse is 
caused by what may be termed a pocket 
which harbors filth being broken away. 
For instance, in those suffering from 
ill health it is often found that fecal 
matter may adhere to the side of the 
intestines, and remain there, aye, even 
for years. It becomes simply a putrid, 
fermenting mass, perhaps, later, the 
center of an ulcer; it may even remain 
there until, late in life, it becomes the 
seat of a cancer or a tumor. 

With continuous eliminative eating, 
this is bound to be broken away. When 
it first becomes broken away, it may 
cause a little absorption into the blood 
stream, and the patient suffers a re¬ 
lapse, until all the results have been 
cleared away again. 

Then, we have to bear in mind, that 
in the lymphatic glands there are often 
pockets of poison which have been 
harbored for the protection of the in- 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 61 


dividual. The protective forces of the 
body have fenced them round, so to 
speak, so as to prevent their entrance 
into the blood stream once more. The 
normal forces of the body being unable 
to dispose of them because of the rapid 
rate of production of toxins, they be¬ 
come stored in a part of the lymphatic 
tissue. When eliminative eating is re¬ 
sorted to, these begin to break loose, 
and it is in the setting free of these 
poisons into the system that a relapse 
is sometimes observed. 

In various other ways, pockets may 
be exhibited, which, when broken up, 
cause a show of symptoms again. But 
finally they can all be cleaned up, and 
the body left in a fit, clean and whole¬ 
some condition, able to eliminate the 
products of metabolism as they occur 
and to keep the efficiency of the 
functions at their highest point. 

In addition to the eliminative eating, 
hot baths may be resorted to with great 
advantage. A hot bath in the morning, 
if convenient, and another hot bath in 
the evening before retiring may be 


62 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

taken. In this way, the skin is thrown 
into violent action, a fever is induced, 
the poisons burnt up more rapidly than 
usual, and so the process of elimination 
is speeded up. 

Rest is an absolute essential for such 
elimination. There are three kinds of 
rest:—mental, physical, and physio¬ 
logical. It is well known that mental 
states affect the body very consider¬ 
ably. Worry manufactures toxins in 
the body. Only today I read in my 
paper that Jean Sothern, once movie 
actress, died yesterday, poisoned by the 
toxins set up by the constant fear of 
being arrested for former crimes. There 
are heaps of other proofs that worry 
and fear kill rapidly, because of the 
interference of functions and the manu¬ 
facture of poisons which are set up. 

The first essential in rest then is 
mental rest; freedom from worry and 
from any mental state that may pro¬ 
duce poisons to be secreted. 

The second form of rest necessary 
for successful elimination is physical 
rest. That means rest from arduous 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 63 

labors, from straining exertions. Except 
when the body is in a state of fever, 
some general exercises which gently use 
the main muscles of the body are ex¬ 
tremely useful. The physical culture 
course given in my book “ Health and 
Fitness’’ has been found extremely use¬ 
ful for this purpose, and, without any 
harm, they can be done morning and 
evening. In fact, some exercise actually 
permits rest, for without exercise there 
is often a restlessness which worries 
the patient and does much harm. In 
addition to these exercises walking in 
the fresh air is good, but no violent 
physical exertion should be indulged in. 
After the exercises, the patient should 
recline, and give himself up to com¬ 
plete relaxation. Physical rest then is 
absolutely essential to successful elimi¬ 
nation. 

The third form of rest is physio¬ 
logical rest. This means rest for the 
digestive and assimilative organs, which 
is best secured by lightening the diet 
as much as possible, and by eating only 
those foods, such as fresh fruit and 


64 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

fresh garden vegetables, which entail 
no heavy strain on the digestive and 
assimilative organs. These organs have 
usually been much overworked by over¬ 
eating, and by eating poisonous and the 
wrong kind of foods, by eating foods 
in wrong combination, and at any old 
time, and they need this rest. It is not 
always merely a matter of shifting 
round the combination of foods taken. 
That is not sufficient. These organs 
which have been overworked absolutely 
need a rest just as much as a strained 
heart needs a rest, and the only way 
to obtain a rest is to refrain from eat¬ 
ing heavily, at any rate from eating 
heavy starches and proteins. 


CHAPTER III. 


Eating to Combat Consumption. 

Consumption or tuberculosis bas been 
called “The Great White Scourge”, be¬ 
cause of the many victims it claims, 
and because it has been so deadly, 
strangling its victims to death gradually 
but surely. 

When the germ theory was popu¬ 
larized, and the tubercle bacillus was 
discovered, tuberculosis began to be 
looked upon as a curable disease. It 
was thought that, once the bacillus was 
discovered, all that had to be done was 
to kill it, and the disease would dis¬ 
appear. Ever since those days they 
have been trying to make serums and 
virus, have administered medicines, but 
they cannot definitely say that they 
have discovered a medical or serum cure 
for tuberculosis. And they will not find 
one, because tuberculosis cannot be said 
to be caused by the tubercle bacillus. 
Green, the great medical professor, who 


66 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

himself thought that the tubercle 
bacillus may not be present in the in¬ 
cipient or the first actual stages of 
tuberculosis. In fact, he says that 
sometimes it is never present at all in 
a case of tuberculosis. Well then, what 
is the good of being able to kill the 
germ if it is not always present in 
tuberculosis ? However, it makes it clear 
that the tubercle bacillus is not the 
cause of tuberculosis, but is only asso¬ 
ciated with it, and may be found in the 
lungs of tuberculous people. 

As a matter of fact, there is not the 
slightest doubt that the same bacillus 
mutates, that is, by a change of environ¬ 
ment, it may be made to take on other 
forms. It is practically established that 
the tubercle bacillus can become another 
form of bacillus if transferred to the 
necessary environment. So much has 
been done recently in the biological 
laboratory regarding germ mutation 
that not only will common sense 
establish the fact that all disease is one, 
but it will be demonstrated that the 
germs which cause disease are universal 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 67 

scavengers which take on different 
forms according to their habitat. 

Well then, what is the cause of con¬ 
sumption! Consumption is not only a 
poison disease, it is also a deficiency 
disease, denoting deficiency in oxygen 
and in various mineral salts in the 
blood. To endeavor to administer these 
artificially or in their crude state is 
useless, and all endeavors have been 
without success. The way to make up 
the deficiencies, and to eliminate the 
poisons from past bad eating habits is 
to correct these eating habits, and to 
undergo a course of eating for elimi¬ 
nation. 

The sufferers from consumption will 
be relieved to know that, although there 
is no definite medical cure, many people 
can be traced to have suffered from 
consumption, and yet have no longer 
any sign of the existence of the disease. 
The proof that they suffered from con¬ 
sumption lies in the tubercles which 
still remain in the form of scar tissue 
in the lungs. The tubercles are formed 
in the first instance by the gathering 


68 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

of poisons, and may even be likened 
unto ordinary ulcers. Just as an 
ulcer is an effort on the part of your 
body to get rid of the poisons in your 
blood, so is the tubercle, and also just 
as the ulcer will clear away, for some 
perhaps unknown reason to you, so may 
the tubercle clear away and leave be¬ 
hind only its scar tissue to tell its 
history. 

However, consumption is a terrible 
scourge, and has baffled the physicians 
of our age, it needs careful and con¬ 
scientious attention. 

The first thing to do is to make sure 
of a radical course of elimination. All 
proteins and starches should be for¬ 
bidden, and only those foods eaten 
which assist in establishing alkalinity 
of the blood, and in the provision of 
the valuable mineral elements which 
may not have been supplied by previous 
faulty eating. Here is a diet that can 
begin the treatment. 

Breakfast:—One tumbler of orange 
juice; made 50% pure orange juice, and 
50% pure water; no sugar or any 


Eating to Correct Iia-Health 69 


sweetening. This should be sipped 
slowly, and masticated well. It may be 
followed by a tumblerful of pure clear 
water. 

Midday Meal:—Fresh garden vegeta¬ 
ble stew. This should be made by put¬ 
ting such fresh vegetables as onions, 
spinach, fresh garden cabbage, celery 
and carrots into a pot, covering them 
well with water. Bring to a boil, and 
then allow to simmer only for about 
two hours. The tissue as well as the 
juice should be taken, and should be 
eaten slowly and carefully. No part of 
it should be thrown away. Again, no 
salt, pepper or any nonsense of that 
description should be added. 

Evening Meal:—Fresh fruit, such as 
apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries; 
the skin as well as the pulp should be 
eaten of all these fruits. 

A hot bath, 110°, F., should be taken 1 
each morning and evening, for a length 
of from twenty to thirty minutes. 

An enema should be taken before 
each hot bath, that is, each morning and 
evening. 


70 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

The temperature of the enema water 
should he from 80° to 85° F. At first, 
about a pint should be injected, and 
immediately expelled. Two quarts 
should then be injected, and held for a 
period of five minutes before being 
expelled. This will obtain the best re¬ 
sults. 

Exercise should also be indulged in, 
but it must be of a very light variety. 
Hiking is the best of all, because it 
promotes healthy breathing. Great care 
must be taken in any breathing exer¬ 
cise. A strained inhalation may cause 
a tearing of the lung tissue where the 
disease is advanced, so breathing exer¬ 
cises should be refrained from till all 
the tubercles have healed. The breath¬ 
ing, however, which will be obtained by 
ordinary hiking will be quite sufficient 
for the time being, and the fresh air 
and oxygen obtained in its natural state 
in the fresh air will assist in burning 
up the poisons given off so rapidly by 
the lungs in tuberculosis. 

When there is high temperature, the 
patient should be put to bed, and food 


Eating to Cobbect Ill-Health 71 

should be cut down to a minimum. In 
such a case, the diet should he as fol¬ 
lows: 

Breakfast:—Glass of orange juice, 
prepared as above. 

Midday Meal:—Glass of vegetable 
juice, made from stewing vegetables as 
described above, the juice only being 
taken by the patient. 

Evening Meal:—The vegetable tissues 
left over from the stew may be eaten 
by the patient if desired by him. If 
not, a little of the vegetable juice or 
even a glass of water will suffice. 

It must be remembered that a high 
temperature is an assistance in the 
throwing off of the poisons. It is an 
eruption of Nature, and the products 
of auto-intoxication are speedily elimi¬ 
nated if the organs of elimination are 
kept up to their highest point of effi¬ 
ciency in functioning. 

Two hot baths may be given each 
day, preceded by an enema. 

Not until the temperature is right 
down to normal should any solid food 
be given at all, but even then, it must 


72 Eating to Correct Ill-Heaj/th 

be limited to fresh fruit or fresh vege¬ 
tables. 

It is impossible to give any definite 
length of time for the diets given above. 
It all depends on how speedily the dis¬ 
ease is eliminated, and this depends on 
how long it took to develop the disease, 
or how long it took to store up the 
poisons until the eruption known as 
consumption was detected. Neverthe¬ 
less, I have seen consumption eradi¬ 
cated from the system in eight weeks 
on the above first diet. It may even 
take longer, but success is certain if 
the rules are adhered to conscientiously 
and the patient really endeavors to get 
well. 

After symptoms have disappeared, it 
is very essential to eat correctly in the 
future. The starches and proteins 
should never be eaten at the same meal; 
starches should never be combined with 
fresh acid fruit; and only one starch 
meal and one protein meal, each con¬ 
sisting of one form of protein and one 
form of starch, should be allowed each 
day. 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 73 

Exercise may be increased as time 
goes on, light breathing exercises may 
be indulged in, and when all symptoms 
have entirely disappeared, deep inhala¬ 
tions will be found very useful, but 
before doing any really deep breathing 
exercises, a physician should be con¬ 
sulted, and a diagnosis made to make 
sure that all tubercles have healed en¬ 
tirely. It must be remembered that if 
the lungs are still affected, they may 
be torn by unscientific deep breathing, 
but when they are entirely healed noth¬ 
ing but good can come from deep breath¬ 
ing exercises, because the lungs need 
all the fresh air they can get, and the 
oxygen in the air is going to do more 
than anything else to rid the patient of 
consumption provided he does not pile 
up more poisons in his system by in¬ 
correct eating. 

tuberculosis in other organs. 

When the tuberculosis attacks another 
part of the body, such as the bowels, 
the knee, the hip, or any other organ, 
the treatment is precisely the same as 


74 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

the foregoing. The thing always to 
bear in mind is that the disease is sim¬ 
ply an exhibition of Nature’s effort to 
throw out poisons accumulated in the 
system by faulty eating. So sure as 
these are eliminated, and the eating 
habits corrected, provided the disease 
has not progressed too far, it can be 
eradicated. Of course, a lot also de¬ 
pends on whether the body has been 
mutilated by surgical operations; the 
chances of recovery are more if nothing 
has been done in this way. 

The only local applications which 
need be made are hot water fomenta¬ 
tions; but the limb, if the tuberculosis 
has attacked the knee, for instance, 
should be thoroughly rested, and no 
strain put on it till the symptoms have 
entirely disappeared. 


CHAPTER IV. 


Goitre. 

Goitre is a swelling of the neck, due 
to hypertrophy of the thyroid gland. 
The seeming obvious treatment to the 
orthodox mind is tampering with the 
gland, hut that is by no means the 
case, nor is it satisfactory to administer 
thyroid extract. The thing to know is 
that the gland hypertrophies because 
of some abnormality of living. The 
human body will keep in good order if 
treated rightly, but if eating is incor¬ 
rect, if no exercise is taken, if other 
laws of Nature are broken, then there 
must be some result, and the glands 
cannot be expected to function properly. 

Mostly it is excess of proteins or 
starches which cause the goitre, the 
goitre being a demonstration in the 
break of body co-ordination. The im¬ 
mediate cause may be in the water, or 
even sanitary conditions, because it is 
well known that in Switzerland, where 


76 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

goitre is very prevalent, it is more pro¬ 
nounced in the mountain regions where 
most of the people are notoriously lack¬ 
ing in sanitation. 

The organs of elimination must be 
stimulated by eating, drinking, and 
enemas. 

For the first week the following diet 
is good: 

Breakfast:—Glass of orange juice, 
50% water, 50% orange juice. 

Midday:—Half a head of cabbage, or 
a head of lettuce, eaten raw. With it 
may be taken a few figs, or dates, or 
other sweet fruits to make it palatable. 

Evening Meal:—A little starchy food 
may be taken; one or two whole wheat 
crackers with a little butter, or a slice 
or so of whole wheat bread and butter. 

A tumbler of water may be drunk 
mornings on first arising, also prior to 
retiring. An enema should be taken 
morning and evening, and a hot bath 
every evening before retiring. 

The food may be increased during 
the second week. The following is quite 
reliable: 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 77 

Breakfast:—One or two slices of 
whole wheat bread and butter, or whole 
wheat crackers and butter, or rye crisps 
with butter. 

Midday Meal:—May consist of all 
fresh fruit, as obtainable, apples, pears, 
oranges, gooseberries, strawberries, 
raspberries, currants, plums etc. 

Evening Meal:—May consist of fresh 
vegetables, such as lettuce, spinach, 
onions, and celery. They should pref¬ 
erably be eaten raw, and with them may 
be taken some cheese, a good brand, of 
course, such as Kraft’s or Maclaren’s. 

The diet may again be increased at 
the fourth week to the following: 

Breakfast:—Grapefruit, lemon, or 
orange, followed by fresh vegetables and 
nuts. Peanut butter may be taken with 
the fresh vegetables, which may include 
onions, spinach, lettuce, celery, cauli¬ 
flower, etc. 

Midday Meal:—Starchy foods; rye 
crisps, whole wheat crackers, unpol¬ 
ished rice, or oatmeal, any one. Butter 
or sweet fruits may also be taken to 
render palatable. 


78 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

Evening Meal:—May consist of fresh 
vegetable stew, made by putting fresh 
garden vegetables into a pot and stew¬ 
ing them, eating both tissue and liquid 
slowly and carefully. 

Goitre is a not infrequent accompani¬ 
ment of catarrh or other complaint. It 
is one of the symptoms that the body 
has been thrown out of order, out of co¬ 
ordination. Often a goitre will disap¬ 
pear when treatment is given for 
asthma or some other complaint, but 
when it occurs alone, the main thing to 
do is to limit strictly the proteins and 
starches taken, especially the proteins. 

It takes sometimes several months 
for the goitre to disappear; especially 
is this the case if the goitre has been 
coming for a long time, and has become 
hard. In fact, scar tissue sometimes 
forms, and this is exceedingly difficult 
to get rid of, but if the goitre is still 
soft, it may be cleared away in from 
two to three months, or even less. 

It may help a little to drink distilled 
water during the first weeks of treat¬ 
ment, although this is not absolutely 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 79 

essential. It just helps matters a little. 
The main thing is to eliminate the 
poisons from the system which are 
causing the lack of body co-ordination, 
and so get the glands to function effi¬ 
ciently. 

Great care must be taken at all times 
to keep the alimentary canal in good 
condition. As soon as the above system 
of eating is begun, the tongue will turn 
a dirty yellow possibly, and the breath 
will begin to smell. But as time goes 
on, these conditions will clean up; the 
tongue will become a healthy red, the 
breath will become sweeter, and the 
general health will much improve. 

It is interesting to note that orthodox 
works on goitre always mention the 
fact that the patient is usually in a 
poor state of health. This is, of course, 
only to be expected, for the goitre is 
just a symptom of auto-intoxication, 
stimulated, it may be, by local condi¬ 
tions. 

When all signs of the goitre have 
disappeared, it is very essential then 
not to go back to the old system of 


80 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

eating which caused the goitre. One 
starch meal and one protein meal 
should be taken each day, and all the 
rules of correct eating and food com¬ 
bination outlined in “Correct and Cor¬ 
rective Eeating” should be strictly ad¬ 
hered to. There is no good in eating 
to correct ill health if the body is 
abused as soon as the complaint dis¬ 
appears. 


CHAPTER V. 


Catarrh and Asthma. 

Catarrh is inflammation of the mucus 
membrane. Asthma is one of its 
phases. 

It is caused chiefly by a lessening of 
the alkalinity of the blood through over 
indulgence in starches or through the 
fermentation of starches set up by 
faulty food combination and putrefac¬ 
tion. 

Most sufferers from asthma will find 
that they have been over indulging in 
starches, or else have been eating the 
devitalized and demineralized starchy 
products foisted upon the public by 
commercialism. 

The asthmatic notices his trouble 
chiefly when there is dust in the air to 
disturb his mucus membrane. In the 
summer, pollen floating in the air irri¬ 
tates it; but it is essential to remember 
that it is only an irritation, that the 
mucus membrane is out of condition to 


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82 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

begin with. Therefore, it is foolish to 
endeavor to prevent the patient from 
inhaling pollen grains or dust, and ex¬ 
pect it to be an ultimate cure. The 
thing to do is to restore the normal 
condition of the mucus membrane. 
Even on the face of it, it is absurd to 
try to make asthmatic patients immune 
to certain types of pollen. 

The recent talk about Allergens is 
interesting, but by no means assists in 
the understanding of catarrh or asthma. 
According to Professor Richet and 
others, the particular sort of pollen to 
which the asthmatic patient takes an 
objection is his Allergen, and should 
be avoided by him. 

It is possible to eat in such a way 
as to do away with the sensitive mucus 
membrane, so that the patient is not 
bothered by pollen or any dust which 
previously set up his fits of asthma. 
There is no need for the asthmatic to 
go to any different climate from the one 
he is accustomed to, nor is it necessary 
to undergo serum inoculations or the 
expensive sinous operations. 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 83 

When catarrh attacks the bronchial 
tubes, it is known as asthma, and the 
patient suffers choking and much heart 
and chest discomfort, due to the abnor¬ 
mal secretions of mucus.. Sometimes 
such patients may choke to death. 

However, asthma is very dangerous, 
for even during sleep, sufficient mucus 
may be secreted to choke the patient to 
death. The mucus just runs out, and 
clogs up the bronchial tubes, preventing 
breathing. 

But, before this stage is reached, the 
patient suffers such terrible fits of 
coughing that sometimes death is prayed 
for as a relief. 

It is important to make every effort 
to restore the normal alkalinity of the 
blood by scientific eating. For a time, 
no starches whatever should be eaten, 
and the proteins should be cut down 
considerably. However, the patient 
need not have a bad time. He can eat 
all the fresh fruits and fresh vegetables 
he wants without any ill effect. 

Frequently the asthmatic also suffers 
from obesity or abnormal fatness in all 


84 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

the tissues. Eating correctly to elimi¬ 
nate the acid and toxic products will 
take away this fat, and the patient can 
still have a right good time, feeding to 
his heart’s content, so long as he limits 
himself to fresh fruit and fresh vege¬ 
tables. 

During the first week, it is necessary 
to undergo a very radical course of 
elimination. 

For breakfast, a draught of orange 
juice, 50% water, 50% orange juice. 

Midday Meal:—Fresh vegetable soup, 
made from any fresh vegetables to 
hand. 

Evening Meal:—Any fresh fruit, such 
as apples, pears, oranges, grapefruit, 
etc., that may be obtainable. 

This should be taken for a whole 
week at least. 

A hot bath, preceded by an enema, 
should be taken morning and evening. 
During the first two or three days, 
when the patient feels nauseated, a 
stomach pump will be very useful, be¬ 
cause, as a rule, the stomach will be 
found to be in such a terrible condition, 


Eating to Coerect Ill-Health 85 

that a desire to vomit will be prominent. 
As soon as the patient begins to eat, 
this nausea ceases. It is essential not 
to eat. It is extremely important to see 
that the alimentary canal is cleaned 
through continuously. That is why the 
enemas are so essential; the orange 
juice and the vegetable soup will assist 
here. If the stomach is cleaned out 
with a stomach pump, then the cleaning 
up is a more rapid process. However, 
the stomach pump is not absolutely 
essential, if nobody is at hand to per¬ 
form for the patient. 

During the second week, the eating 
may be stabilized into the system that 
ought to last until all symptoms have 
entirely disappeared, and, if the patient 
is fat, until all the fatness has gone 
also. It is as follows: 

Breakfast:—Any fresh fruits obtain¬ 
able, oranges, grapefruits, apples, 
pears, plums, peaches, etc. 

Midday Meal:—Fresh garden vege¬ 
table stew. All fresh vegetables avail¬ 
able should be stewed in a pot, and both 
the soup and the tissue eaten. The 


86 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

fresh vegetables used should include 
onions, spinach, celery, carrots, etc. 

Evening Meal:—A raw salad, lettuce, 
celery, cabbage, cauliflower, onions, to¬ 
matoes, etc., any garden vegetables 
available, but should be eaten raw. 
These may be made very palatable by 
mixing with some sweet fruit, such as 
dates, figs, prunes, raisins, etc. 

So long as the above diet is adhered 
to absolutely, there is no need to re¬ 
strict the quantities taken. The only 
thing this diet can do is to supply 
valuable mineral elements which the 
body needs, and which are especially 
required for restoring the normal 
alkalinity of the blood. 

After two or three weeks, all symp¬ 
toms of catarrh will disappear, but the 
diet should be continued for several 
weeks after this. Also, all the rules 
regarding elimination should be adhered 
to. A hot bath should be taken every 
evening, preceded by an enema. 

After six weeks, the following diet 
may be taken, and provided all symp¬ 
toms of the catarrh have disappeared, 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 87 


no fear of a return of the complaint 
need arise. 

Breakfast:—Fresh vegetable salad, 
composed of lettuce, cabbage, celery, 
cauliflower, etc., with cheese, a good 
brand, such as Kraft’s or Maclaren’s. 
As much may be eaten as will satisfy 
the appetite, but no other form of food 
should be taken at this meal. 

Midday Meal:—Any fresh fruit ob¬ 
tainable; oranges, apples, pears, grape¬ 
fruit, lemons, peaches, plums, etc. 

Evening Meal:—A starchy food; one 
of the following: rye crisps and but¬ 
ter, whole wheat bread and butter, oat¬ 
meal, unpolished rice, barley (not 
pearl), whole wheat crackers and but¬ 
ter. 

The main thing is to prevent a recur¬ 
rence of the catarrhal condition. This 
is possible only by eating correctly. 
So sure as old methods of eating and 
living are resorted to, so sure will the 
catarrh return. There is no need at all 
for the sufferer from catarrh to limit 
his eating. It is only necessary for 
him to eat the right sort of foods, and 


88 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

combine them correctly, being sure that 
he does not poison himself by eating 
demineralized, devitalized foods, keep¬ 
ing the starches and proteins separate 
so as to avoid retarding his digestion 
and setting up putrefaction. The diet 
given for the normal, healthy person, 
as outlined in ‘ 4 Correct and Corrective 
Eating”, that is, composed of only one 
starchy meal, one protein meal, and one 
meal made up of fresh fruit and fresh 
vegetables only per day, must be fol¬ 
lowed. Maintain healthy elimination, 
get exercise and fresh air, and there 
will then be no need to be afraid of 
pollen grains or of your own home 
atmosphere. 

With a blood stream in its normal 
alkaline condition, free from any toxic 
products, and with an alimentary canal 
as clean as right eating can make it, 
there is no fear of auto-intoxication 
through the absorption of any putrefac¬ 
tion, because the putrefaction will not 
exist. 

Asthma is one of the easiest things 
in the world to cure; not of course by 


Eating to Correct Ild-Health 89 

medicines or serums, but simply 
through elimination and right eating. 

CATARRH OF OTHER ORGANS. 

The fact that catarrh may affect the 
bowels or any other mucus membrane 
in the body shows that it is not neces¬ 
sary to have pollen grains causing 
asthma. As soon as the normal alka¬ 
linity of the blood is lessened, and the 
blood is in a toxic condition, then any 
one of the mucus membranes may be¬ 
come affected, and start going wrong. 
It is a sign of bad body co-ordination, 
but this is merely due to the fact that 
the body has been ill treated. 

For catarrh of the bowels, it is neces¬ 
sary to refrain from eating more than 
is necessary, but the diet taken should 
be strictly in accordance with the direc¬ 
tions given for catarrh and asthma in 
the foregoing pages. Catarrh of the 
stomach and bowels often follows nasal 
catarrh. This is often due to swallow¬ 
ing the abnormal mucus which infects 
the lower mucous membrane. 

Coughs and colds are mostly exhibi¬ 
tions of the disordered mucus of ca- 


90 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

tarrh. It has frequently been said that 
you do not take cold from staying out 
in the fresh air. The cold is already 
in you, and it is irritation upon the 
mucus membrane which sets it into a 
state of hyper-activity. But so soon 
as the body is cleaned up, all the symp¬ 
toms disappear. The mucus membrane 
functions efficiently and properly, and 
becomes resistant to irritation, which 
is the best condition of all. After all, 
it is not a very satisfactory thing to 
have to move from one end of the coun¬ 
try to the other just because you im¬ 
agine some particular thing in the air 
affects your mucus membrane. It is 
much better to get those mucus mem¬ 
branes into such a condition that no 
such irritation will worry them. 

Wherever the mucus membrane is 
catarrhal, it can be brought back to its 
normal condition if the system of eating 
outlined in the foregoing pages on 
catarrh and asthma is conscientiously 
adhered to, care being taken to keep 
the organs of elimination at their high- 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 91 


est point of activity throughout the 
cleaning up period, and then when the 
symptoms disappear to eat correctly so 
as to prevent a return of the catarrh. 



CHAPTER VI. 


Rheumatism. 

Rheumatism is an inflammation of 
the muscle joints or nerves causing 
much pain, and sometimes mal-forma- 
tion. According to the germ theory it 
is caused by bacteria, but they have 
never yet discovered the bacteria. Cer¬ 
tain it is, however, that rheumatism is 
the result of acid poisons in the blood, 
setting the general body condition out 
of order, and attacking some part in 
particular. 

Most people believe that rheumatism 
is caused by eating too much meat. It 
is nothing of the kind, that is, not en¬ 
tirely. If you eat a lot of meat together 
with starchy food, then it may be an 
auxiliary cause, but it is frequently the 
excess of starches which causes rheu¬ 
matism, for the starches ferment, and 
lessen the normal alkalinity of the 
blood. 

In fact, rheumatism is a splendid illus- 


94 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

tration of what an acid irritating blood 
stream can mean to the possessor. In¬ 
stead of having the normal, alkaline 
soothing medium to carry nourishment 
to the various organs of the body so 
that they can act efficiently, auto-intoxi¬ 
cation renders the blood acid, and the 
nerves and organs are bathed in this 
acid medium which so irritates them 
as to make the poor victim almost 
crumple to pieces with pain. 

In the early stages rheumatism is 
very easy to keep at bay, but if it is 
allowed to progress, and its symptoms 
merely tampered with instead of efforts 
being made to establish a healthy blood 
stream, then it can do serious damage. 
You can easily understand that the pain 
must be excruciating, if you just con¬ 
sider what it means to have an acid, 
irritating medium attacking important 
nerves, or at least, the nerve end 
organs. What else but pain and mal¬ 
formation can be expected! If you 
take sulphuric acid, and drop a little 
on a hard stone marble, it will begin to 
attack the marble, and disfigure it, and 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 95 


eat it away. Consider, then, the acids 
as they get to the delicate nerve end 
organs, and nerve tissues. Is it to he 
wondered at, that they cause such ex¬ 
cruciating pain? 

If rheumatism is not attacked at its 
cause, that is, at the eating habits, it 
may even lead to heart disease, or 
arthritis deformans. In heart disease, 
there is danger at any moment of the 
victim dropping down dead. In arthritis 
deformans, all the joints and the bones 
swell up terribly, and the patient is a 
dreadful sight to behold. 

During the recent war, the soldiers 
suffered terribly with rheumatism. If 
you will read the medical reports, you 
will be led to understand that not one 
soldier suffered, but if you were in the 
ranks, as I was, and spent any time at 
convalescent camps and hospitals, as 
well as among the men in the field, you 
will have seen thousands and thousands 
of fellows almost crippled and crum¬ 
pled up with the terrible pains of 
rheumatism. The doctors relying for 
their diagnosis upon the clinical ther- 


96 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

momenter, refused to have these cases 
certified as rheumatism, with the result 
that all medical reports on the armies 
in the field contain the information that 
there were no real cases of rheumatism. 
Thus record the statistics. You know 
there are three kinds of lies: ordinary 
lies, darned lies, and statistics. 

Often, for a time at a stretch, men 
were forced to eat canned beef and 
biscuits. The two mixed together were 
admirable for the development of rheu¬ 
matism, especially when it is remem¬ 
bered that the men were exposed to the 
damp and cold so considerably. But 
when food was obtainable, all kinds of 
mixtures were forced upon the men. 

While pain is present, it is important 
to see that all clothing worn is thor¬ 
oughly dry and well aired; that is to 
say, that it has been well exposed to the 
fresh air, and become thoroughly venti¬ 
lated. The bed clothes especially must 
be thoroughly dry before those with a 
tendency to rheumatism are allowed to 
use them. 

To relieve the exceeding pain, it is 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 97 


a good plan to take a hot bath, and to 
lie in it for thirty minutes at a time, 
until a healthy perspiration takes place, 
and the blood drawn away from the 
parts which are iritated to the super¬ 
ficial blood vessels. 

An enema should be taken morning 
and evening. 

For the first week, all starches and 
proteins should be absent from the 
diet, and while there is any pain at all, 
no starchy foods should be taken. 

For the interest of those who have 
hitherto believed that rheumatism is 
caused by over indulgence in meat, and 
have consequently refrained from eat¬ 
ing eggs or meat, I would like to note 
that the following experiment was once 
made by a patient suffering for years 
from chronic rheumatism who became 
interested in his diet. He refrained 
from eating meat, and lived as a vege¬ 
tarian. In spite of this, his rheumatism 
was as bad as ever. He then stopped 
eating every food except meat. He 
took rare steaks, and beef in plenty, 
but no bread or potatoes, or even fresh 


98 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

vegetables, just the meat alone. Within 
a few months his rheumatism had dis¬ 
appeared. 

This may seem a little strange, but 
it is well to know that meat by itself 
is more easily digested and assimilated 
than if starchy food is mixed with it. 
In fact, the ideal menu is one composed 
of one kind of food only; in other 
words, the mono diet. There are people 
who think they will get indigestion 
from eating meat alone. They have 
never tried it; at least, they have never 
tried it with good organs to begin with. 
If they have tried eating meat alone, it 
has been with their stomachs full of the 
poisonous remains of previous meals. 
Get the stomach into good order, and 
then eat meat by itself, with nothing 
at all to go with it, and you will not 
suffer from indigestion, constipation or 
any other inconvenience. It is the mix¬ 
ing of meat with starchy foods that is 
so detrimental to health. 

Of course, I am not suggesting meat 
eating as against vegetarianism. This 
is an aesthetic matter. I personally 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 99 

prefer to live mainly on vegetarian 
food, believing that it is barbaric to kill 
animals, and eat their dead carcases. 
Nevertheless, it is valuable to know 
what the human body can do, and not 
to be led astray by any desires or views 
one may wish to bring about. 

In spite of this, the rheumatic patient 
would do well to refrain from eating 
meat and starches for a considerable 
time, even after the cessation of pain. 
The following is an outline of what the 
diet should be for the first week: 

Breakfast:—Draught of lemon water, 
20% pure lemon juice, 80% pure water. 
No sweetening, such as sugar or honey, 
should be added. 

Midday Meal:—A head of lettuce or 
raw cabbage, followed, perhaps, by a 
little fresh fruit. 

Evening Meal:—Fresh vegetable stew, 
made of any fresh vegetables, such as 
onions, spinach, celery, fresh garden 
cabbage, etc., to hand. 

Plenty of deep breathing should be 
indulged in, so as to give the lungs a 
chance to burn up the poisons, by in- 


100 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

haling the maximum amount of fresh 
air and oxygen; especially is this nec¬ 
essary to flat chested people who have 
been in the habit of using the top of 
their lungs only. It is also very impor¬ 
tant to remember to exhale, to breathe 
out as far as possible before inhaling 
again in these breathing exercises. To 
get a good idea of breathing exercises, 
the reader should get a copy of 
“Health and Fitness”. 

During the second week, the hot 
baths and enemas should continue, and 
the diet should be as follows: 

Breakfast: Glass of orange juice, 
50% orange juice, 25% water, and the 
yolks of two eggs beaten up. 

Midday Meal:—Vegetable salad. This 
salad is made by getting any raw, fresh 
garden vegetables, and chopping them 
up, adding only a few pieces of dates, 
figs, or other sweet fruit to make pala¬ 
table. No condiments of any descrip¬ 
tion may be added. 

Evening Meal:—Vegetable soup, made 
by boiling fresh garden vegetables, fol¬ 
lowed by any fresh fruit in season. 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 101 


This diet should be continued until 
all pain and swelling have disappeared, 
and show no tendency to return. It 
must be carefully noted that the ali¬ 
mentary canal must be kept cleaned 
through. That is the object of taking 
so much vegetable food, because it 
stimulates to activity alimentary peri¬ 
stalsis, and serves only to help restore 
the normal alkalinity of the blood 
stream. 

After from six to eight weeks, still 
great care must be taken to live accord¬ 
ing to scientific principles, and a peru¬ 
sal of “Correct and Corrective Eating” 
is essential. The starches and proteins 
must not be mixed at the same meals 
under any circumstances, or trouble 
may be expected. Above all, no acid 
food of any description must be taken 
at the same meal as any starchy food. 
If this rule is disregarded, trouble can 
be guaranteed. 

A good diet is as follows: 

Breakfast:—One form of starchy 
food; porridge, rice (unpolished), oat¬ 
meal, whole wheat bread, rye crackers, 


102 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

or rye crisps with butter, and sweet 
fruits, such as dates, figs, prunes, etc., 
which will help make the meal palata¬ 
ble. 

Midday Meal:—This may consist of 
meat, eggs, fish, lamb chops, nuts, 
cheese, or any other nutritious protein, 
eaten together with only fresh vege¬ 
tables, such as onions, spinach, lettuce, 
string beans, cauliflower, Brussels 
sprouts, etc. 

Evening Meal:—Any fresh fruits, 
and vegetable stew. 

Provided the earlier diet has been 
followed out until all symptoms have 
disappeared, the above diet will ensure 
against a recurrence of the attack. Of 
course, it is taken for granted that 
the rules of exercise, fresh air, and 
general hygiene are also followed. 


CHAPTER VII. 


Indigestion. 

Indigestion is so obviously the result 
of faulty eating that it is extraordinary 
that the universal treatment for indi¬ 
gestion in the past has not been the 
correction of eating habits which are 
responsible for the indigestion. How¬ 
ever, the trouble is that most people 
want to go on eating the food that 
makes them ill, and then request the 
medicine man to give them some drug 
which will drive out the illness which 
attacks them because of their own 
indulgences. 

After all, indigestion is a result of 
indulgence. When chronic, this may 
not seem to apply, because, in spite of 
all the care taken, in restriction of the 
quantity of food taken, the patient suf¬ 
fers violent pains and discomfort. How¬ 
ever, one must always remember that it 
does not take five minutes to develop 


104 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

chronic indigestion; it is a matter of 
years, years of wrong eating. 

But careful eating, and what has 
hitherto been thought of as scientific 
eating, may end in indigestion, be¬ 
cause of the faulty combination of 
foods. If the combination is based on 
the simple facts of chemistry, then 
indigestion may be kept at bay, no 
matter how advanced the condition 
has become; that is, of course, provided 
the cleaning up process is gone through 
first of all. 

In the past, the matter of food com¬ 
bination has not received the attention 
it ought to have received. Students 
of diet have been so busy working out 
the number of calories required that 
they have forgotten entirely that the 
body is composed of a certain number 
of elements, bound together in a certain 
way, and acquired by the body only in 
vital live foods. They have also for¬ 
gotten that in the stomach the digestive 
ferments work by acids and alkalies. 
They mixed their food without regard 
to the ferments required to digest 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 105 

them, and it is no wonder that digestion 
is so prevalent amongst us, and the 
serious ills resulting from it. 

After all, indigestion is really the 
mother of diseases. Constipation is 
responsible for bowel intoxication, but 
if there is perfect digestion, there will 
be no constipation, and so we can look 
to indigestion as the chief cause of 
constipation, which is the forerunner 
of most diseases, because it sets up 
auto-intoxication so obviously. 

There are cases where it is impossi¬ 
ble for the person to eat the slightest 
amount of food, so he thinks, without 
getting violent stomach pains. Some¬ 
times the condition of indigestion has 
advanced so far that the nerves are 
affected, and the moment that food is 
even smelt, the stomach rebels, and 
violent pains of indigestion are set up. 
I have heard of people rolling on the 
floor in agony, merely at the thought of 
a coming meal. 

Before everything, a general clean up 
is necessary. No food should be taken 
for two or three days at least. Only 


106 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

draughts of water at body temperature 
may be sipped slowly. 

A hot bath should be taken morning 
and evening, and should be preceded 
by an enema, taken very thoroughly 
and carefully. 

Usually the indigestion is accom¬ 
panied by much acidity. Whatever 
enters the stomach seems to manufac¬ 
ture acid gas. This is merely an indi¬ 
cation of the putrid condition of the 
stomach. It would be a good thing for 
the sufferer from indigestion to en¬ 
deavor to get a physician to administer 
a stomach pump so as to clean out 
the stomach contents. 

There is no need to take bi-carbonate 
of soda, or any other alkaline chemical. 
What we want to do is to establish 
a healthy condition of the alimentary 
canal, not to get it manufacturing all 
the acid gas, and then to counteract 
this. 

It must be remembered that whatever 
food is eaten it must be eaten very 
slowly and carefully. Mastication must 
be very thorough. Each portion, 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 107 


whether it be solid or liquid must be 
chewed to the fullest extent before 
swallowing. In fact, swallowing must 
be automatic. Food should be kept in 
the mouth just as long as possible until 
swallowing is automatic. For the suf¬ 
ferer from indigestion to bolt food 
without its being mixed with the saliva 
is to invite trouble. It must be remem¬ 
bered that the first process of digestion 
takes place in the mouth. Without 
this first process, you cannot expect the 
successive ones to be efficient. 

This is especially the case with re¬ 
gard to starchy food. The ptyalin in 
the saliva is essential for the breaking 
down of the starches, preparatory to 
turning them into sugar. If the starches 
are bolted, then the stomach cannot 
deal with them as it should do. How¬ 
ever, this is for when the sufferer from 
indigestion has recuperated, and is able 
to begin eating starches again. He 
should refrain from them for quite a 
time. But, whether it be water or milk 
or orange juice or vegetable soup, the 


108 Eating to Correct Ill-Hearth 

mastication should be just as thorough 
in each case. 

The following is the diet that should 
be taken for the first week: 

Breakfast:—Tumblerful of fresh vege¬ 
table soup, made from fresh onions, 
spinach, and carrots, etc. 

Midday Meal:—Glass of orange juice, 
50% orange juice and 50% water, may 
be taken at about blood heat, 98.4° F. 

Evening Meal:—Tumblerful of vege¬ 
table soup, made as for breakfast. 

After the first week, the diet may be 
increased a little, and some solid food 
may be taken. For the next week, the 
diet may be as follows: 

Breakfast:—Fresh vegetable stew, 
made from onions, spinach, fresh gar¬ 
den cabbage, carrots, etc. 

Midday Meal:—Any fresh" fruit in 
season, such as pears, peaches, plums, 
etc. These may be eaten slowly and 
carefully in a raw condition. 

Evening Meal:—Fresh vegetable stew, 
as for breakfast. 

This diet should suffice for the second 
and third weeks. The fourth week it 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 109 


may be increased a little more, and 
made more substantial, but it is impera¬ 
tive that the cleaning up process be 
continued until all the old poisons 
from the alimentary canal have been 
cleaned through, and the normal alka¬ 
linity established, and also the normal 
digestive functions brought back to 
power. 

For the fourth and fifth week, the 
diet may be as follows: 

Breakfast:—A vegetable salad, made 
from lettuce, celery, cauliflower, and 
other fresh vegetables, and made pala¬ 
table with figs, prunes, or dates, 
chopped up. (In order to see the 
palatable preparation of dishes, you are 
heartily recommended to get “Healthier 
and Better Cookery”). 

Midday Meal:—One form of starchy 
food; may be whole wheat bread and 
butter, rye crisps, buckwheat cakes, 
made palatable with sweet fruits such 
as figs, dates, prunes, only. 

Evening Meal .-—Fresh vegetable stew, 
made from any fresh garden vegetables 
as described above. Both tissue and 


110 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

soup to be eaten slowly and carefully, 
of course. Followed by fresh fruit in 
season, such as apples, pears, plums, 
peaches, etc. 

Occasionally, these meals may be 
switched around, say, every alternate 
day; take the evening meal for break¬ 
fast, and breakfast meal in the evening. 
In that case, include with the salad a 
little of a good brand of cheese, such 
as Kraft’s or Maclaren’s. Cream 
cheese would be very nourishing and 
palatable together with the salad. 

The above diet should be adhered 
to until all traces of inconvenience have 
disappeared, and the return of an appe¬ 
tite shows that there is a natural crav¬ 
ing for the heavier foods, such as pro¬ 
teins and starches. In the meantime, 
the bowels should move twice a day, 
and if a natural action is not forth¬ 
coming, an enema should be resorted 
to. However, the above diet should 
stimulate this bowel action without 
resort to the enema. 

Many people refrain from defecation 
as a habit, so it is well to establish a 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 111 


habit of morning and evening defeca¬ 
tion, although there ought to be no 
difficulty in evacuating after each meal, 
and as I have allowed for three meals, 
there should be three sessions. The 
main thing is to remember that the 
alimentary canal should be kept cleaned 
through. It is the main sewer of the 
body, and, just as it is important to 
keep the main sewer of a town in a 
constant state of irrigation, so it is 
necessary to keep the alimentary canal 
in action, and not allow the contents to 
be retarded in any part of it. 

At from six to eight weeks, the nor¬ 
mal diet may he resumed, hut it must 
be remembered that the normal diet 
is the scientific one outlined in “Cor¬ 
rect and Corrective Eating”. It is 
essential never to mix the starches and 
proteins. It is also essential not to eat 
such foods as bananas and peas, which 
contain starches and proteins mixed in 
such proportions as to cause discom¬ 
fort in those whose digestive organs 
are a little weak. 

The breakfast meal may consist of 


112 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

a starchy food, made palatable with 
sweet fruit. Any form of starchy food 
available, provided it is whole meal, is 
all right; also any kind of sweet fruits 
available will do. By sweet fruit is 
meant figs, dates, prunes, etc. 

Under no circumstances should any 
form of protein food be eaten at this 
starchy meal. If it is, then trouble is 
almost certain. 

Midday Meal:—Any fresh fruits 
available: apples, pears, plums, etc. 
During this meal, a tumblerful of milk 
may be sipped slowly, and each portion 
thoroughly masticated. 

Evening meal:—May consist of any 
one form of protein food, eggs, fish, 
meat, nuts, cheese, and any fresh vege¬ 
tables in season, such as string beans, 
cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., but 
not potatoes. 

There is no need why the quantity of 
food taken should be limited in any 
way, provided there is thorough masti¬ 
cation of each portion. However, don’t 
expect to eat as much as the average 
person who overeats does, for your 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 113 

appetite will be the natural one, and 
not stimulated artificially by condi¬ 
ments, or the mixing of foods. 

Again, it is important to remember 
that exercise and fresh air are abso¬ 
lutely essential. You cannot develop 
healthy organs without exercise, and 
you cannot bum up the poisons effi¬ 
ciently without fresh air. The oxygen 
in the air is used for the sole purpose 
of burning up the products of meta¬ 
bolism, and if you do not get this fresh 
air, the poisons remain, and so set out 
of gear the vital organs of the body. 

Exercise is of extraordinary impor¬ 
tance to those with a tendency to indi¬ 
gestion. Those exercises involving the 
use of the vital muscles, those of the 
trunk and abdomen especially, will tone 
up the muscular tissue, will give an 
auto-massage of the viscera, and so 
keep away fatty tissue and also assure 
peristalsis in the intestines. 

If you are not in the habit of per¬ 
forming a regular set of exercises, then 
your best plan is to get a copy of 
“Health and Fitness’’. There you will 


114 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

find a series of exercises mapped out 
into a physical culture course, and they 
are the ones I used in battling against 
my ills; I have since performed them 
regularly, and they have kept me fit 
for arduous duties, and even ready for 
athletic work. They are especially 
valuable for women, because of their 
stimulating effect upon the vital mus¬ 
cles. It was with a view to stimulating 
the vital organs and muscles that the 
exercises were evolved. 


CHAPTER VIII. 


Constipation. 

There is nothing like constipation to 
set up anto-intoxication and the satura¬ 
tion of the body with impurities. It 
seems extraordinary that people will 
harbor in their bodies such filth. If 
they came in contact with it on their 
clothing, they would be absolutely dis¬ 
gusted ; yet it is safe to say that ninety 
per cent of people suffer with constipa¬ 
tion. Most people think that if they 
have an action once a day, that is suffi¬ 
cient. I have even heard people remark 
that it is a good thing to miss a day or 
two occasionally. It is possible to go 
every day, and still be constipated. 
There should be a motion following 
each meal, so that if you have two 
meals a day you should have two mo¬ 
tions and if you have three meals a 
day, then three motions. Unless the 
feces are odorless, at least not objec¬ 
tionable in their odor, putrefaction is 


116 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

evidently going on, and auto-intoxica¬ 
tion and ill health will result. 

The way people eat mostly causes the 
constipation, because the mixing of 
proteins and starches together at the 
same meal retards digestion, and as 
explained in the chapter concerning 
indigestion, constipation must result 
if indigestion is set up. Again, con¬ 
stipation may cause indigestion, for if 
the lower bowel contents are allowed to 
remain long after they ought to have 
been expelled, they contaminate the 
alimentary canal, and this contamina¬ 
tion spreads upwards until it affects 
the digestive organs. In this way, 
many chronic cases of indigestion are 
set up. 

It is not so much vegetarian food 
that will relieve constipation, as in 
making the meals consist of only one 
or two kinds of food. If you have a 
meal of meat only, provided of course, 
that your organs are in good condition, 
the meat will not cause constipation. 
If, however, you take meat and mix it 
with bread in the form of a sandwich, 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 117 

it will bo almost sure to cause constipa¬ 
tion, and you will have to take some 
sort of gunpowder to shift it. 

The taking of drugs to stimulate ali¬ 
mentary action is something which 
should be avoided. The constant tak¬ 
ing of something to compel bowel ac¬ 
tion in that way ruins the tone of the 
muscular tissue, and the function be¬ 
comes weaker and weaker, until the 
organs are absolutely dependent upon 
the drug stimulation. 

The same of course applies to the 
enema. The mucus membrane may be 
injured by taking too many enemas. 
However, the object of right eating is 
to eat in such a way as to keep the 
alimentary canal in good working or¬ 
der, so that constipation never results, 
an action being forthcoming without 
difficulty. Of course, in addition to the 
eating, it is very necessary to exercise, 
especially doing those exercises which 
involve the trunk and vital muscles. 

There are some people who try mere¬ 
ly a reform of the diet to counteract 
constipation. That is not sufficient. 


118 Eating to Correct Ill-Hearth 

When constipation has become estab¬ 
lished, that means to say that the whole 
system has been poisoned, and that 
the functions of the organs of elimina¬ 
tion have been thrown out of co-ordina¬ 
tion and order. It is necessary, in or¬ 
der to get the best results, first of all 
to clean up thoroughly. A radical proc¬ 
ess of elimination is absolutely essen¬ 
tial until the health of the organs has 
been restored. 

A very important point with regard 
to constipation is its inducement by 
habit, and also psychologically. Sani¬ 
tary appliances are not always con¬ 
venient. Most of our large cities are 
without the proper equipment for the 
convenience of the people; it is not al¬ 
ways possible to evacuate just when the 
right moment occurs. The result is 
that the act is inhibited voluntarily by 
the person. Well, that is constipation 
immediately. 

The best thing to do is to form a 
regular habit of evacuation, say morn¬ 
ing and evening, and after the midday 
meal. This is the method I have found 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 119 

most satisfactory. It is just as easy to 
form good habits as bad ones. How¬ 
ever, most people find that they are 
fond of lying in bed in the morning; 
they leave matters till the last moment, 
and consequently have no time for any¬ 
thing but just to throw their food down 
their throats and hasten to the depot 
for their day’s slavery. It would be 
much better to get up a few moments 
earlier, and take time to give the body 
a good cleaning both inside and out¬ 
side. There is nothing more stimulat¬ 
ing to a clear brain than the early 
morning evacuation, followed by a com¬ 
plete bath and sponge down. 

I believe that most of the mental in¬ 
efficiency and dull heaviness comes from 
constipation. The poisons in the lower 
intestine are very rapidly let into the 
blood, travel around to the heart, and 
are then pumped up to the brain. Is 
it any wonder that there is so much 
dulness, that the brain is not alert and 
efficient as it should be? 

I have had my share of constipation, 
so I know its evil effects. I was told 


120 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

by my doctors when I was a boy that 
I was one of those nnlncky people who 
cannot get rid of constipation. Con¬ 
stipation, they told me, is something 
which attacks certain people, and it 
remains with them through life. There 
is only one thing to shift it, and that 
is to take gunpowder. I took their 
gunpowder for a week or so, then I de¬ 
termined to let Nature play her part, 
and I have never taken any gunpowder 
since, and can induce an action, as a 
matter of fact, within ten minutes of 
any given time, because I have my 
functions well under control. This is 
an interesting matter, and it is ex¬ 
plained in my little book, procurable 
for 50 cents:—“The True Art and 
Practice of Auto-Suggestion ’ \ Just as 
it is possible to induce an inhibition as 
a habit, so it is impossible to develop 
the control of the functions, and pro¬ 
cure an evacuation almost whenever de¬ 
sired. 

In order to get rid of chronic con¬ 
stipation which has resisted every 
effort to relieve it, the body should be 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 121 


first of all cleaned up thoroughly; that 
is, all the eliminating organs should be 
put into radical action. A hot bath 
should be taken morning and evening, 
preceded by enemas. The diet for the 
first week should consist of the fol¬ 
lowing : 

Breakfast: Orange juice, 50 per cent 
water, 5 per cent juice. 

Midday meal: Vegetable stew, made 
from all fresh garden vegetables to 
hand, including onions, spinach, car¬ 
rots, turnips, etc. 

Evening meal: Should consist of 
only fresh fruits, apples, pears, plums, 
grapes, raspberries, strawberries, etc. 

This diet should be followed for two 
weeks, and the hot baths and enemas 
should be kept up all the time. The 
third week the diet should be as fol¬ 
lows : 

A starchy food, such as rye crisps, 
wholewheat bread, buckwheat cakes, 
porridge, unpolished rice, or some such 
food, made palatable with sweet fruits, 
figs, dates, and raisins, etc. 

Midday meal: Fresh vegetable salad, 


122 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

made of fresh garden vegetables such 
as lettuce, celery, spring onions, and 
any other available. This may be eaten 
together with some good brand of 
cream cheese, Kraft’s or Maclaren’s. 
The quanity of cheese need not be 
limited. Cheese will constipate only 
when eaten with bread or other starchy 
food. If taken with a fresh salad, as 
here suggested, it cannot cause con¬ 
stipation. It may be followed with fresh 
fruits in season. 

Evening meal: May be fresh vege¬ 
table stew, made from onions, spinach, 
carrots, etc., made in accordance with 
the directions given in “Healthier and 
Better Cookery”, that is, containing no 
condiments, but all the natural juices 
and salts of the vegetables in the wa¬ 
ter in which they have been boiled. 

This diet should be continued for the 
third and fourth weeks, then the 
enemas and hot baths should be dis¬ 
continued, a tepid bath being taken of 
course in the usual way, as explained 
in my book “Health and Fitness”, 
every morning. 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 123 

Of course, if there is no action of the 
bowels forthcoming, there must be an 
enema taken, hut it must, in that case, 
be realized that the body has not yet 
cleaned up, and the diet must be con¬ 
tinued as above until the habit is es¬ 
tablished. But everything must be 
done on the part of the patient him¬ 
self to establish this habit. He must 
go first thing in the morning with the 
intention of evacuating, and stay at 
stool until the expected action is forth¬ 
coming, that is, of course within rea¬ 
sonable limits. The object of this diet¬ 
ing is to establish habitual action, and 
to stimulate it. There is no doubt that 
it will eventually be established if the 
instructions given here are carried out 
correctly, and the exercises in addition 
are performed. 

After six to eight weeks, there is no 
reason why the diet given for a normal 
healthy person in ‘ 6 Correct and Cor¬ 
rective Eating” should not be adopted. 

There is nothing in it that can lead 
to constipation when once the functions 
are in good order. It involves one 


124 Eating to Correct Ill-Hearth 

starchy meal, and one protein meal per 
day, with only one form of starch and 
one form of protein at those meals. 
There should always be a sufficiency of 
fresh vegetable food in the diet. 


CHAPTER IX. 


Fatness and How to Reduce It. 

Fatness is not only an exhibition of 
an auto-intoxicated body, but also a 
huge strain on the vital organs. If 
your normal weight is 125 pounds, and 
your actual weight is 200 pounds, that 
means to say that your heart has to 
pump the blood through 80 pounds of 
extra pressure, and this is going to 
wear out the strongest organ. Also, it 
means that each organ if your body is 
surrounded by a layer of fat, which is 
handicapping it, and preventing it from 
functioning efficiently. The fatty tis¬ 
sue may get around the heart, and in¬ 
terfere with its action, until the heart 
degenerates, and you get the complaint 
known as fatty degeneration of the 
heart. 

There is a certain hereditary predis¬ 
position to fatness, it running in cer¬ 
tain families. There is no medical cure 
for fatness. You absolutely have to 


126 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

eradicate its causes in the individual 
conditions which set up the fatness. 
Many people think that fatness is in¬ 
curable and inevitable, because their 
parents and fore parents suffered from 
it. 

There is nothing which kills more 
quickly than fat, and it should be dis¬ 
persed as rapidly as possible. Pat is 
induced by wrong eating, and abnormal 
appetite. The abnormal appetite is 
stimulated by the unscientific mixing of 
the various foods. If a person eats ac¬ 
cording to the scientific principles of 
food combination expounded in “Cor¬ 
rect and Corrective Eating”, it is im¬ 
possible to overeat, and the fat, with the 
reasonable precaution of doing a little 
exercise of course, will not accumulate. 

The best course to pursue is to un¬ 
dergo a radical course of elimination 
as a preparatory to the right eating 
necessary to establish a balanced meta¬ 
bolism. It must be remembered that 
those with a tendency to exceeding fat¬ 
ness are not prepared to go without 
food immediately; therefore the fasting 


Eating to Correct Ill-Hearth 127 

treatment is not satisfactory in such 
cases. The patient has probably be¬ 
come accustomed to eating enormous 
meals, and unless some sort of satis¬ 
faction is obtained, the patient loses 
heart, and is not so likely to follow the 
rules of right eating, and the treatment 
that will eventually disperse the fat. 

So, contrary to the other cases, let 
the person with a tendency to fatness, 
start the other way round. Let him 
have all the food he wants, but on the 
condition that he eats the right sort. 
For the first several weeks, he can live 
on the following diet, and yet reduce. 

Breakfast: Salad made of fresh 
vegetables, including lettuce, cauliflow¬ 
er, spring onions, celery, etc., made 
palatable with a little sweet fruit or 
good cream cheese. As much may be 
eaten as desired, so long as no other 
foods but those mentioned here are 
taken. 

Midday meal: Fresh vegetable stew, 
made from all fresh vegetabes to hand, 
onions, spinach, cauliflower, fresh gar- 
dent cabbage, carrots, etc., but no pota- 


128 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

toes. As much may be eaten as de¬ 
sired. 

Evening meal: All fresh fruits ob¬ 
tainable, oranges, apples, grape fruits, 
lemons, peaches, pears, etc. 

There need be no restriction in quan¬ 
tity, but if there is a longing for extra 
food, it should he satisfied with only 
those foods stipulated for that meal. 
The extra craving will exist only be¬ 
cause of the poisons circulating through 
the alimentary canal, and being thrown 
off by the various emunctories of the 
body in the dissipation of the poisonous 
products. 

The diet should be continued until a 
substantial reduction has been made, 
for at least eight weeks. There is no 
need to worry about the pockets of 
skin which will be left. They will 
tighten up, and disappear as time goes 
on. 

It is exceedingly important to see 
that the alimentary canal is continually 
cleansed through, and a bowel action 
should he forthcoming three times a 
day. If it is not, an enema must he 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 129 

resorted to, but the constipation must 
be kept at bay, as explained in the 
chapter of this book devoted to Con¬ 
stipation. 

After eight weeks, the following diet 
may be resumed, until the body has 
assumed its normal weight, which may 
he in anything from two to three 
months, or more, if the person has been 
very obese. 

Breakfast: A little starchy food, such 
as porridge, whole wheat bread, un¬ 
polished rice, rye crisps, etc., made 
palatable with sweet fruits, figs, dates, 
raisins, prunes, etc. 

Midday meal: Any fresh fruits ob¬ 
tainable, raw or cooked, oranges, ap¬ 
ples, pears, plums, raspberries, straw¬ 
berries, etc. 

Evening meal: Any one form of pro¬ 
tein food, such as, any one kind of 
meat, or fish, together with any kind 
of cooked fresh vegetables, string 
beans, cauliflower, carrots, brussels 
sprouts, etc., but no potatoes. The lat¬ 
ter may he taken at breakfast in place 
of the other starchy food, but the po- 


130 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

tatoes must be cooked in accordance 
with the instructions given in “Health¬ 
ier and Better Cookery”; that is, so 
that they contain the whole of their 
salts, the jackets being kept on in 
cooking, so that nothing valuable is 
lost. This is important to remember, 
because even fat people are suffering 
under nourishment sometimes, and, al¬ 
though the food they eat goes to pile 
on fatty tissue which degenerates their 
bodies, and makes them liable to sick¬ 
ness, many valuable elements may be 
lacking, or being passed through the 
body without being assimilated, be¬ 
cause of poor digestion due to the de¬ 
mands made by the fatty tissue. Thus, 
the fat person is an admirable subject 
if any epidemic comes along. 

Many people think that it is healthy 
to be fat. It isn’t. Not only does it 
look ungainly to be fat, but it is really 
unhealthy, and the fat person harbors 
within himself all the necessary condi¬ 
tions for the culture of disease, and is 
never sure at any time whether he is 
going to be ill or not. 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 131 


The same thing applies to fat chil¬ 
dren. Baby Contests have done a lot of 
harm by awarding prizes to fat, toxic 
babies; babies who are liable to be sick 
at any moment, and who are not really 
healthy at all. A baby free from ex¬ 
cess fatty tissue is the baby who is 
more likely to be well, and grow np 
into a fit, healthy adult than the one 
which has a layer of fat all over its 
body, preventing the efficient working 
of its vital organs. 

In order to keep fatness at bay once 
it has been reduced it is necessary to 
live strictly in accordance with the 
principles of scientific dieting, and the 
sufferer would be wise to get a copy of 
“Correct and Corrective Eating”, and 
follow the diet there outlined for the 
normal, healthy, person. He can still 
indulge his appetite in full, without 
fear of putting on excess weight, so long 
as he combines his foods as they should 
be combined, and so prevents any 
chance of retardation in the alimentary 
canal in the process of digestion, and 
overeating of the fat producing foods. 


132 Eating to Corbect Ill-Health 

It is also essential to remember that 
exercise is necesary, and ten minntes 
morning and evening will ensure, not 
only freedom from fat, but a good, 
shapely body, which is well worth hav¬ 
ing. 


CHAPTER X. 


Thinness—And How to Put on Flesh. 

There are some people, who, no mat¬ 
ter what they do, or how much they 
eat, seem to remain in a thin, scraggy 
condition. In fact, thinness is often 
associated with a ravenous appetite. 
For this reason, it is very difficult for 
the sufferer from thinness to under¬ 
stand his complaint. It is useless to 
tell him that he does not eat enough, 
that he doesn’t get good food. He very 
often gets all the food that is looked 
upon as most nutritious and especially 
good for building up; yet, in spite of 
all his feeding, he gets nowhere, and 
remains in a thin, emaciated condition, 
a pitiful, almost a hideous spectacle for 
his more robust fellows. 

It is obvious, then, that there is some¬ 
thing more than the quantity, yea, and 
even the quality, of food eaten that 
matters in the putting on of flesh, and 


134 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

it is to discover this that we must set 
our energies. 

As explained in the opening chapters, 
there are some people with hereditary 
predispositions to certain conditions of 
ill health, and if the habits of the in¬ 
dividual are favorable to the contract¬ 
ing of a condition of ill health, then 
there is not the slightest doubt that it 
will be contracted. On the other hand, 
if the body is kept in good order, if the 
eating habits are scientific, and the 
scientific combination of food is ob¬ 
served, if exercise and fresh air are ob¬ 
tained, then there is not the least rea¬ 
son why the predisposition should re¬ 
sult in the development of the com¬ 
plaint. With this, I have frequently 
dealt in other of my books. There is no 
such thing as hereditary disease. It 
does not matter what your father or 
mother died from. If you keep your 
body healthy, fit, and strong, by right 
eating and right living, there is not 
the slightest reason why you should get 
the complaint. All that exists is a pre¬ 
disposition, so get the idea right out of 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 135 

your head that because your father 
died from thinness, or because he went 
through life thin and meager, that you 
have to do the same. You can put on 
flesh and muscle, and really be good 
to look at if you eat rightly and live 
rightly generally. 

The reason for thinness lies in the 
fact that the food eaten is not as¬ 
similated. After food is digested, it is 
taken round to the various tissues by 
the blood, and there is built up into 
those tissues. That process is known as 
assimilation, hut, unless the food is 
properly digested, and is conveyed by 
a blood stream that is clean and whole¬ 
some, the body tissue refuses to as¬ 
similate it properly. That is just what 
happens in thinness. 

The food usually passes right 
through the body without being taken 
up by the blood, because in sufferers 
from thinness the blood is already sat¬ 
urated with food products which can¬ 
not be assimilated by the tissues. There 
is no balanced metabolism; while the 
catabolism, that is the breaking down, 


136 Eating to Correct Iee-Health 

goes on, the anabolism, the building up, 
does not take place efficiently, and the 
consequence is that there is no balance 
in metabolism and so no chance of the 
muscles being built up into the healthy 
firmness and bulk which is their normal 
state. It may seem extraordinary, but 
really the best plan is to knock down 
the food to a minimum for a time, be- % 
cause the body has certainly got to 
clean up before it can possibly es¬ 
tablish its balance in metabolism once 
more. 

For the first week, the following diet 
should be taken: 

Breakfast: Vegetable soup, chewed 
very thoroughly and carefully, and not 
simply drunk. The soup is made from 
any fresh garden vegetables to hand, 
and should include both onions and 
spinach. 

Midday meal: Composed of any fresh 
fruits in season, apples, pears, grapes, 
etc. 

Evening meal: Fresh vegetable 
stew, made from onions, spinach, cel¬ 
ery, carrots, turnips, etc. The whole of 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 137 

the liquid in which the vegetables have 
been boiled, and the tissue of the 
vegetables themselves should be eaten. 

The quantity eaten of the above does 
not very much matter, so long as noth¬ 
ing in addition to what is stated is 
taken. 

In addition to the morning bath, the 
hot evening bath should be taken, pre¬ 
ceded by an enema. Plenty of fresh air 
should be obtained; deep breathing ex¬ 
ercises, as explained in “ Health and 
Fitness”, should be undergone, and 
other exercises therein explained also 
can be performed with a great deal of 
benefit. In fact, it is absolutely es¬ 
sential for some form of exercise to be 
done both morning and evening in a 
case of thinness, because it is so neces¬ 
sary to get the muscles contracted and 
relaxed in order to stimulate balanced 
metabolism to activity. 

The second week’s diet should be as 
follows: 

Breakfast: Fresh vegetable stew, 
made as above. 

Midday meal: Raw fresh vegetables, 


138 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

such as celery, lettuce, tomatoes, etc., 
made palatable with sweet fruits, such 
as dates, figs, prunes, raisins, etc., or 
some cream cheese. The cream cheese 
should be taken at least every alternate 
day for this week in any case. 

Evening meal: Any fresh friuts in 
season, oranges, apples, pears, plums, 
strawberries, raspberries, etc. 

During the second week the hot bath 
and enema should also be kept up. Dur¬ 
ing the third week and onward, how¬ 
ever, the enema should be resorted to 
only if an action is not forthcoming in 
any other way. However, there ought 
to be no difficulty in such action, if the 
principles of eating as here outlined, 
are followed conscientiously. If there 
is any difficulty, a further cleaning up 
process will have to be gone through, 
and the sufferer should take the course 
of eating given for sufferers from con¬ 
stipation in another part of this book. 

The third week’s diet should be as 
follows: 

Breakfast: Any one form of starchy 
food, such as whole wheat bread, un- 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 139 


polished rice, oatmeal, rye crisps, rye 
crackers, shredded wheat, etc., made 
palatable with sweet fruits only, such 
as figs, dates, prunes, raisins, etc. 

Midday meal: Any fresh fruit in 
season, as described above. With this 
should be eaten as much fresh milk as 
can be consumed comfortably, but not 
exceeding one quart, in any case. Each 
sip of milk must be thoroughly masti¬ 
cated, and mixed with the saliva, for 
it must be remembered that milk is a 
very highly concentrated food, and un¬ 
less it is eaten absolutely properly it 
may do more harm than good. 

Evening meal: Any one form of pro¬ 
tein ; eggs, cheese, nuts, fish, lamb 
chops, beef, in fact, any form of meat 
if desired; not unless, as it is not nec¬ 
essary to eat meat to put on flesh. 
Eggs and nuts are even better for this 
purpose; nuts because they contain so 
much oil. These proteins may be eaten 
in the ordinary way, and any cooked 
fresh vegetables may be taken with 
them, such as string beans, cauliflower, 
fresh garden cabbage, brussels sprouts, 


140 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

etc., but no potatoes. Potatoes may be 
taken as the chosen form of starchy 
food for breakfast, but never mix them 
with meat, or any other protein. Other¬ 
wise you will never get fat, and will 
only succeed in making your system 
ready for the development of ill health. 

In addition to eating according to the 
above plan the most important factor 
is to exercise. Exercise is absolutely 
essential. A course which will con¬ 
tract and relax all the muscles of the 
body is better than one that will just 
use the arms and legs alone. While 
walking is good, it is not sufficient ex¬ 
ercise for the person with a tendency 
to thinness. He absolutely must do 
exercises which involve the trunk and 
vital musclesbending and stretch¬ 
ing and all movements of like character 
that tend to use the abdominal and 
trunk muscles. Those given in “Health 
and Fitness” would be excellent for the 
sufferer from thinness. 

The above diet may be varied in ac¬ 
cordance with the scheme given in 
“Correct and Corrective Eating” for 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 141 

the diet for the normal, healthy person; 
but it is essential always to remember 
that the starches and proteins must 
never be mixed, nor must any acid 
fruits be taken at the same meal as the 
starches, because if they are, fermen¬ 
tation will be set up, and anto-intoxi- 
cation will result, and the building up 
process be hindered. 

As much food as desired may be 
eaten. There is no question of over¬ 
eating, provided only one form of pro¬ 
tein is taken at the protein meal, and 
only one form of starch at the starch 
meal. As many fresh vegetables as de¬ 
sired may be eaten at any meal. 

In place of the milk at the midday 
meal, may be substituted some orange 
juice in which has been beaten up the 
yolks of two or three eggs. Also, as 
time goes on, coup may precede the 
protein of the evening meal. 

But the main thing to remember is, 
that if the right principles of eating are 
observed, and the exercises are done 
conscientiously morning and evening, 
not only will flesh be put on, but abun- 


142 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

dant health and strength will be ob¬ 
tained. Although the proportions of a 
Jack Dempsey may not be the result, 
at any rate, the muscles will assume 
that healthy hulk which is so pleasant 
to look at. However, I have seen weak 
and scraggy boys, emaciated, and al¬ 
most ghastly, live according to these 
plans and by persistent exercise, build 
for themselves magnificent muscles. It 
is not a speculative treatment, but a 
positive method of putting on healthy 
body tissue. 


CHAPTER XI. 


Eczema. 

Eczema is obviously a deficiency dis¬ 
ease, and there is not the slightest 
doubt that it is caused by wrong eat¬ 
ing, and the auto-intoxication set up 
which prevents the assimilation of the 
necessary elements that go to make up 
the constitution of the skin. 

However, eczema is also associated 
with a faulty nervous condition. Shocks 
and fright may cause eczema, because 
the skin is an end organ, practically, 
of the nervous system. Situated in the 
Dermis, or true skin, a layer beneath 
the outer skin, are the delicate end 
organs of the nervous system. Nerv¬ 
ous derangement may result in throw¬ 
ing the skin out of order. This is es¬ 
pecially the case when eating is not 
correct, for a nervous system in a low 
condition of vitality is liable to the 
shocks which bring on eczema. 

But standing eczema, which attacks 


144 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

the skin and keeps it in a bad condi¬ 
tion years on end, as is often the case, 
is plainly due to deficiencies of min¬ 
eral elements. To endeavor to get 
these mineral elements into the body 
by swallowing patent medicines is sheer 
folly. They mnst be obtained from 
food, eaten correctly. 

Devitalized and demineralized foods 
are the cause of a great deal of eczema. 
These foods are: white flour products, 
polished rice, pearl barley, peeled po¬ 
tatoes, white sugar and so on, foods 
which do not contain the natural con¬ 
stituents, but are robbed of them in 
order that they may remain in the 
store for a considerable time. 

The skin is composed of two layers, 
the outer, or Epidermis, and the inner, 
or true Dermis. The inner skin is of 
an entirely different constitution from 
the outer skin, and is formed right 
early in the life of the embryo from a 
different kind of cell. It contains 
organs of the body, whereas the outer 
skin contains no organs. The outer 
skin is just a cuticle which serves to 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 145 

tone down sensations, and to act as a 
protection to the inner skin. 

The Epidermis keeps fresh by multi¬ 
plication of its cells, just the same as 
any other tissue of the body, but the 
new cells are formed from the inner 
side, and, as they are formed, they 
push the old ones upwards, and these 
older ones die and fall off. If you rub 
your skin with a piece of black cloth, 
you will see on the cloth several of 
these dead cells. Dandruff and scurvy 
result from the skin cells being pushed 
off in this way, abnormally. 

Again a radical elimination of waste 
poisons in the body must take place 
before the best results can be obtained 
from a reform in the eating habits. 
For a week or so all the eliminating 
organs must be put into a state of 
maximum action. Hot baths should be 
given every evening, preceded by an 
enema, and the bowels should move at 
least twice a day. After the bath a 
little olive oil or Nujol may be applied 
gently to the skin. This is especially 
the case if there are any sores. The 


146 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

only application that need be made to 
any particularly sore spots is vaseline 
or Nujol, and if possible have the place 
exposed, thus obviating the danger of 
the skin adhering to any bandages ap¬ 
plied. It is well to remember that the 
skin absorbs oxygen from the air, and 
it needs this oxygen in order to re¬ 
produce and be healthy. If you bind 
a sore, and exclude the fresh air, you 
are hindering the healing of that sore. 
The vaseline will serve to keep the 
parts soft, and prevent direct contact 
with the air, which is also necessary. 

However, the diet is most important, 
and the thing to do is to eradicate all 
old poisons which are preventing prop¬ 
er nourishment, and then to start in 
with a diet that will restore the normal 
alkalinity of the blood, and supply all 
the nourishment which the skin needs. 
It is a foolish thing to think that you 
can cure eczema by rubbing something 
on the outside. The skin is fed from 
the inside by the blood, and if the blood 
is poisoned it can only poison the skin, 
no matter what you rub on the outside. 


Eating to Correct Ili^-Health 147 

It is just like trying to clean out a 
filthy sewer by putting paint on the 
outside of the pipes. 

This point applies also the complex¬ 
ion of the face. A little Nujol, vase¬ 
line or olive oil applied to the face be¬ 
fore retiring will help to keep the skin 
smooth and pliable, especially if a lit¬ 
tle massage is given at the time of ap¬ 
plication; the massage will do, in fact, 
more than the oil, to give a good com¬ 
plexion, but the skin of the face must 
be fed by a pure, soothing, healthy, 
alkaline blood if the complexion is to 
be really good. 

In a severe case of eczema the fol¬ 
lowing diet should be taken for the 
first two weeks: 

Breakfast: Some orange juice, 50% 
water, 50% orange juice. 

Midday meal: Fresh vegetable stew, 
made from all fresh garden vegetables, 
including onions, spinach, turnips, cel¬ 
ery, tomatoes, etc. The water in which 
the vegetables have been boiled should 
be taken as well as the vegetable tissue 


148 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

itself. No condiments at all must be 
added. 

Evening meal: Raw fresh vegetable 
salad, made up of celery, lettuce 
spring onions, and any other salad 
vegetables to hand, made palatable with 
sweet fruit. 

For the third and fourth weeks the 
diet should be as follows: 

Breakfast : Fresh vegetable salad, as 
above, made palatable with a little 
cheese of a good brand, such as Kraft’s 
or Maclaren’s. 

Midday meal: Any fresh fruit in sea¬ 
son, oranges, apples, pears, grape fruit, 
grapes, etc., and some fresh milk, any 
amount up to one quart, sipped very 
slowly and carefully. 

Evening meal: Fresh vegetable stew, 
made from any fresh garden vegetables, 
as above. 

These meals may be changed around, 
according to tastes, but it must be re¬ 
membered that the plan must be es¬ 
sentially the same, although a varia¬ 
tion in the fruit and the fresh vegeta- 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 149 


bles used to make up the stews and 
salads is quite in order. 

This diet should he continued until 
the eczema disappears, which ought to 
he within four or five weeks. It is 
then still necessary to he very care¬ 
ful regarding starches and proteins, 
and never to mix them at the same 
meal. A plan such as the following 
would he good. 

Breakfast: Salad, made up of any 
fresh vegetables as above. May be 
made palatable with sweet fruits such 
as figs, dates, prunes, etc., or a little 
cheese. 

Midday meal: One form of starchy 
food with butter, made palatable with 
sweet fruit. 

Evening meal: One form of pro¬ 
tein food: eggs, cheese, nuts, milk, lean 
meat, and two fresh vegetables such as 
spinach, cauliflower, string beans, brus- 
sels sprouts, etc., but no potatoes. Po¬ 
tatoes may be taken as the form of 
starchy food for breakfast, or if the 
starch meal is taken at night, they may 
be taken then. It is essential to re- 


150 Eating to Correct Ill-Heajlth 

member that only one starch meal and 
one protein meal may be taken each 
day. 

It is also very important that, until 
all traces of the eczema have gone, the 
starches and proteins should be cut 
down to a minimum. The filling up, if 
filling up there need be, can be done 
with the fresh vegetables, and fresh 
fruits when taken. 

Bemember to get out into the fresh 
air as much as possible, and never for¬ 
get the bath or complete sponge down 
every morning. No hot baths need 
be taken after the first week if the 
eczema has disappeared. 

Everything depends, of course, upon 
how long it has taken to develop the 
eczema, but in most cases, it will be 
entirely gone in from four to six weeks, 
and to prevent its return the sufferer 
should learn how to eat correctly. Get 
a copy of ‘ 4 Correct and Corrective 
Eating”, and learn the principles of 
the scientific combination of foods so 
as to avoid auto-intoxication, and so to 
keep the skin and complexion soft and 
beautiful. 


CHAPTER XII. 


Piles. 

Piles are abominable things, yet they 
are most prevalent. Probably ninety- 
nine people ont of every hundred suffer 
from piles. Piles are classed as Hae¬ 
morrhoids, and are supposed to rep¬ 
resent a varicose condition. For that 
reason they have been looked upon as 
incurable, the only remedy being oper¬ 
ation. 

I was unfortunate enough to suffer 
severely from piles when I was a boy, 
and I was told by my doctors that 1 
should never be free from piles, be¬ 
cause once they are developed, they 
remain all through life. However, I 
did not believe my doctors, and as soon 
as they gave me up I learned how to 
keep them at bay myself, and I have 
never had any operation for piles, in 
spite of their prediction. 

There is not the silghtest doubt that 
constipation causes piles, because I 


152 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

found that if I allowed myself to be¬ 
come constipated the piles developed, 
and became exceedingly painful, where¬ 
as, as soon as my bowels became loose 
and regular, that is properly regular, 
moving not once a day, but two or 
three times a day, then the piles went 
away, no pain was suffered, and going 
to stool was a relief instead of the 
agony the piles made it. 

My experience has been that piles 
are directly forced out by the com¬ 
pression of feces in the rectum. I have 
heard of absolutely no case of piles that 
has not been started by violent con¬ 
stipation. That is the reason for keep¬ 
ing constipation at bay at all costs, and 
if no action is forthcoming in the na¬ 
tural way, it is much wiser to have 
resort to the enema. 

Sufferers from piles, then, will do 
well to study very carefully the part 
of this book devoted to constipation, 
and if that is the chief difficulty, they 
should follow the instrucflons given in 
that part. 

Most people think that regularity of 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 153 

bowel action means once a day at stool. 
This is incorrect. Yon may go to stool, 
and yet expel insufficient to lower rec¬ 
tal pressure enough to prevent the ex¬ 
pulsion of the piles. The consequence 
is that there is a danger at each going 
to stool of a strain being put on the 
rectum and the piles being forced 
through the sphincter. 

In addition to the reform of the 
eating habits it is necessary for the 
sufferer from piles to get a control of 
the sphincter muscle of the rectum. 
Thus, when at stool, he should learn to 
hold back the haemorrhoid while al¬ 
lowing the feces to be expelled. 

This may appear a little difficult at 
first, but practice will give the control, 
and its mastery will mean the saving 
of much pain and discomfort. 

However, it is essential to remem¬ 
ber that haemorrhoids are directly due 
to auto-intoxication through wrong 
methods of eating, and especially 
through the eating of demineralized 
and devitalized starchy foods. 

The sufferer from piles will not have 


154 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

to give up his favorite foods, except 
that he will certainly have to go with¬ 
out poisonous foods, such as white 
bread, polished rice, pearl barley, etc., 
for I haven’t the slightest doubt that 
these are the direct cause of the piles. 
White bread forms a thick, stodgy 
mass which absolutely prevents easy 
progress along the alimentary canal. 
When it, or what remains of it, gets 
to the rectum it becomes congested 
there into a filthy mass, and by the 
force of its congestion alone it causes 
much pain. 

The presence of piles is not only a 
great danger to health, but at any mo¬ 
ment the piles may burst, and the suf¬ 
ferer may lose much blood, and become 
weak in consequence. Again, septi¬ 
caemia may be set up, through direct 
contact of the filthy putrid mass with 
the blood stream. Ulcers and fistulas 
may be developed in this manner *also. 

The following is the diet which 
should be taken for the first week. It 
should be accompanied by a hot bath 
morning and evening, to be preceded 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 155 

by an enema in any case, whether there 
is any action at any other times or not, 
because it is absolutely essential to 
relieve pressure in the rectum, and to 
get the lower bowel as free and clear 
as possible: 

Breakfast: Orange juice 50% orange 
juice, 50% water, and no sweetening. 

Midday meal: Fresh vegetable stew, 
made from any fresh vegetables to 
hand, such as onions, spinach, carrots, 
turnips, etc. 

Evening meal: Fresh fruit, such as 
apples, pears, oranges, raspberries, 
strawberries. 

After the first week, and for the next 
three or four weeks the diet may be as 
follows: 

Breakfast: Orange juice, in which 
have been beaten up the yokes of two 
or three eggs. 

Midday meal: Fresh vegetable salad, 
made from celery, spring onions, let¬ 
tuce, cauliflower, etc., made palatable 
with sweet fruits, dates, figs, prunes, 
etc. 

Evening meal: Fresh vegetable stew, 


156 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

made from all fresh garden vegetables, 
as above. 

t There need be no limit to the quan¬ 
tities eaten, provided that this plan is 
adhered to. It is, however, very im¬ 
portant to see that the bowels move, 
and every endeavor should be made on 
the part of the patient to secure a 
movement of the bowels whenever the 
sign is given. To inhibit a motion is 
most detrimental to the sufferer from 
piles, and may even bring on an at¬ 
tack. 

It is taken for granted that such 
practices as sitting on cold stone, cold 
iron, hot pipes, etc., shall be refrained 
from, that the clothing worn shall be 
well aired and well dried, and that gen¬ 
eral hygienic habits shall be followed. 

It is also essential to do regularly a 
system of exercises Those involving 
the use of the abdominal muscles in 
particular should be done. The Physi¬ 
cal Culture Course given in “Health 
and Fitness” was the one I used to 
combat my very serious tendency to 
piles, and I know that what it did for 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 157 


me, it has already done for others, and 
it can do the same for you if you suffer 
as I suffered. 

Faithful adherence to the principles 
of right eating expounded in ‘* Correct 
and Corrective Eating” will ensure 
freedom from piles in the future. 



























CHAPTER Xm. 


High Temperature. 

A high temperature is a reliable in¬ 
dication that disease is present, a sign 
that the body has rebelled against some 
poisonous elements contained in it, that 
the balance has been overthrown, and 
that the defensive forces have met with 
defeat at the hands of the disease 
forces. 

During high temperature, if you 
searched the throat thoroughly, you 
might find the diphtheria bacillus, the 
germ associated with diphtheria. If 
your physician discovered this, you 
would be classified as a diphtheria pa¬ 
tient. If, on the other hand, he ex¬ 
amined your feces, and found the ty¬ 
phoid bacillus, you would he classified 
as a typhoid patient. If you come out 
in red spots on your skin, you may he 
classified as having scarlet fever. If 
you are coughing up mucus, you may 
be classified as a bronchial case, or as 


160 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

suffering from an attack of influenza. 
If the temperature goes up very high, 
your case will he one of pneumonia. 
If you are classified as having influenza, 
and you die, you will then be classified 
as dying from pneumonia. 

And so I might go on, explaining how 
fortuitous circumstances will lead to 
your being classified as a sufferer from 
a certain disease. But because there is 
a temperature in the first place there 
is no reason why that temperature 
should increase, and that the disease 
forces should get the better of you. 
If everything is done to assist Nature 
in what is really a process of elimina¬ 
tion, of extra burning up of poisons, in 
the bodj", whether assisted by germs or 
not, the temperature can sometimes be 
brought down very quickly. 

The most important thing to do in 
the case of high temperature is to 
stop all food. In no circumstances 
should any food be taken. In times 
gone by, people have thought that if 
they refrained from eating for a few 
hours they would die. The absurd 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 161 

stories in fiction of people who were 
starving to death in doing without food 
for a day or two show how every little 
the body has been understood. It is 
possible to go without food for six to 
eight weeks, without actual starvation 
taking place. Always hear that in 
mind. To feed a patient with high tem¬ 
perature with eggs, milk, beef stew, 
and other so-called nourishing dishes is 
sheer folly, and is against all physio¬ 
logical principles. 

As a matter of fact, it is absolutely 
impossible for the body to digest food 
if the temperature is above normal. If 
that one point is borne in mind, then 
it is obvious that no food whatsoever 
must he taken while the temperature is 
high. 

It used to he thought that while the 
patient was ill, he required extra 
nourishment to keep up his strength. 
What folly! Such food is absolutely in¬ 
capable of being digested or assimi¬ 
lated ; and to take milk and eggs during 
a high temperature is worse still, for 
they simply go hard in the stomach, and 


162 Eating to Correct Ili>Heal.th 

not only set up further complications, 
but prevent elimination from going on. 

If you want to cultivate germs, you 
prepare a medium from milk, eggs, or 
beef stew, and the germs will thrive 
and flourish in that medium, so that 
you will be able to obtain pretty well 
any specimen you want. If germs are 
found in the alimentary canal, as would 
be the case in any form of alimentary 
poisoning, to feed them on their 
nourishing beef stew, eggs, and milk, 
is “the limit”. 

After all, what is the use of trying 
to combat germs with anti-toxins and 
serums, if you go and feed them 
through the alimentary canal. The way 
to get rid of the germs and the poison 
on which they thrive, and without 
which they cannot live is to clean 
through the alimentary canal, and then 
assist the organs of elimination, and we 
must remember that the eliminating 
organs demand the cessation of taking 
heavy proteins, especially into the 
alimentary canal or into the body at all. 

The body contains within itself all 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 163 

the forces for its own recuperation, and 
it is to the stimulation of these forces 
that we must look for the correction of 
ill health. Of course it is taken for 
granted that those not versed in the 
science of healing should have the at¬ 
tention of a skilled physician. But if 
the physician wants to feed you, you 
have a right to your own life, and you 
can demand that in addition to his 
treatment, you be allowed to permit 
your organs to eliminate to get rid of 
the disease which is attacking you. 

Immediately on noticing high tem¬ 
perature, take a good, complete enema; 
follow this with a hot bath, about 
110°F., for twenty to thirty minutes. 
Then get right into bed beneath warm 
coverings until a good perspiration is 
set up. Drink plenty of water; a little 
orange juice or lemon juice in this wa¬ 
ter will not hurt. As a matter of fact, 
it has been proved that lemon juice 
taken this way is antiseptic, and tends 
to break down germs along the alimen¬ 
tary canal. 

The enema and hot bath should be 
repeated twice daily if the high tern- 


164 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

perature should continue, but there is 
no reason why it should if the proper 
rest and elimination are secured. Even 
the worst threats of diseases may be 
kept at bay if taken in time in this 
manner. Be careful to take the tem¬ 
perature before taking the hot bath, not 
afterwards, because the hot bath will 
put up the temperature, whatever it is. 

When the temperature has abated, 
the following diet should be taken for 
the following week: 

Breakfast: Glass of orange juice, 
50% orange juice, 50% water, no sweet¬ 
ening of any description. 

Midday meal: Tumblerful of fresh 
vegetable soup, made from onions, 
spinach, fresh garden cabbage, carrots. 
Only the water in which these have 
been boiled should be taken, but not 
even this if there is any temperature. 

Evening meal: Another tumbler of 
fresh vegetable soup, as above. 

Of course, the hot bath and enema 
must be continued morning and even¬ 
ing, and all the rest possible secured 

At the second week following the 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 165 

temperature, the diet may be increased 
as follows: 

Breakfast: Fresh vegetable salad, 
made from lettuce, spring onions, cel¬ 
ery, etc., made palatable with cream 
cheese, a good variety, Kraft’s or Mac- 
laren’s. 

Midday meal: Fresh vegetable stew, 
made from all fresh garden vegetables 
to hand, onions, spinach, tomatoes, cab¬ 
bage, etc. Both the water in which the 
vegetables have been boiled, and the 
tissue should be eaten, and thoroughly 
well masticated. 

Evening meal: Any fresh fruit ob¬ 
tainable, oranges, lemons, grape fruits, 
apples, pears, peaches, raspberries, 
strawberries, etc. 

The third week after the temperature, 
the diet may be increased to the follow¬ 
ing: 

Breakfast: Any one form of starch 
food; whole wheat bread, rye crisps, 
buckwheat cakes, porridge, etc., made 
palatable with sweet friuts, such as figs, 
dates, prunes, raisins, etc., only. 

Midday meal: Fresh vegetable stew, 
made as above; both water and tissue 
to be eaten. 


166 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

Evening meal: One form of protein 
food: eggs, milk, cheese, lamb chops, 
lean meat, if desired, together with any 
fresh vegetables, such as cauliflower, 
string beans, spinach, sprouts, etc. No 
potatoes; this is very important. 

The following week the diet may be 
made the normal one, as explained in 
“Correct and Corrective Eating.” The 
patient may eat pretty well what he 
likes, provided he observes the prin¬ 
ciples of scientific combination, so that 
the chances of a return to ill health are 
reduced to a minimum. 

The best chances of overcoming any 
disease accompanied by high tempera¬ 
ture is to refrain from eating alto¬ 
gether, and to take just pure, clean wa¬ 
ter, and to keep the eliminating organs 
in condition. Whatever other treat¬ 
ment be given this is very important, 
and it is the only way to reduce the 
temperature and to assist the body in 
finally overcoming the disease. Per¬ 
sistence is necessary. So long as the 
temperature lasts so long must the 
patient fast. 


CHAPTER XIV. 


Cancer. 

Many people are astonished at the 
marvels of Dr. Abrams ’ Electronic ma¬ 
chine reputed to diagnose incipent can¬ 
cer. There is nothing extraordinary 
about it at all. As a matter of fact, 
any person who is suffering from auto¬ 
intoxication, with a blood stream that is 
not pure and healthy, is an incipient 
cancer case. After all, cancer is only 
part of all disease, and caused in the 
same way as any other disease. It 
may be quite true that the cells in a 
certain region of the body cease to 
function properly, and reproduce be¬ 
yond the normal. But after all, what is 
all disease but disorder of function and 
lack of balance? 

The best time to stop cancer is in 
its incipient condition, and if your 
blood is not healthily pure, then you 
are an incipient cancer case, and the 


168 Eating to Coerect Ill-Health 

sooner you clean up, the safer you are 
from cancer. 

All the medical authorities are now 
shouting with the news that they have 
discovered that the heavy protein eat¬ 
ers are the sufferers from cancer. They 
will soon find, however, that it is not 
only the heavy protein eaters, but also 
the heavy starch eaters, especially if 
they are eating starches and proteins 
together, and more especially if the 
starches they are eating are the demin¬ 
eralized and devitalized commercial 
products. 

There is no medical cure for cancer. 
All medical authorities are agreed on 
that. All they can do is to wait for the 
cancer to be large enough to attempt 
an operation, or to burn it away with 
radium or X-Ray. If you will follow 
up the history of these cases after the 
operations have been performed, or 
after attempts have been made to bum 
away the cancer, you will just see how 
successful these treatments are. All 
the cases I have been in touch with 
have exhibited a definite breakdown in 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 169 


vitality from the first treatment until 
death ensued. 

Any incipient case of cancer is easily 
put right by a course in eliminative 
eating. Where the cancer is actually 
developed, radical elimination and care¬ 
ful eating immediately stops the prog¬ 
ress of the cancerous growth, and in 
time it disappears. 

If your medical man diagnoses your 
case as that of actual cancer, and you 
learn how to eat properly, and elimin¬ 
ate it, your medical man will then tell 
you that after all he made a mistake, 
and that you did not suffer from can¬ 
cer, because cancer is incurable. That 
is the proof that you did not suffer 
from cancer, because it is incurable. It 
is just the same with asthma. If you 
have asthma (and asthma is one of the 
simplest things in the world to cure 
by careful eating), your doctor will 
tell you that after all you could not 
have had asthma, because asthma is in¬ 
curable. That is the way they will put 
it over you. However, they will learn 
more about health and disease as time 


170 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

goes on, if they do not confine them¬ 
selves too much to orthodoxy and medi¬ 
cal convention, and then there will be 
true hope for humanity. 

There is no doubt that there are 
times, if cancer is absolutely left with¬ 
out correcting the eating habits, when 
an operation is necessary, especially if 
medical treatment has been given and 
the cancer thereby allowed to develop 
and injure serious tissues. But there 
is not the slightest doubt that one day 
medical men generally will take their 
heads out of the ground of medical 
orthodoxy, and look around and see 
what Nature, in the form of scientific 
eating, can do to restore healthy tissue. 

As in asthma the mucus membrane 
gives off mucus in superabundance and 
becomes irritated, so in cancer the cells 
in a certain part of the body begin to 
multiply and become abnormal. If you 
were to examine the cancer cells under 
the high power of a microscope you 
would find an essential part of the cells 
missing. This part is known as the 
centrosome, and up to the present no 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 171 

function has been ascribed to it by 
physiologists or biologists. It is, how¬ 
ever, safe to say that it has a lot to do 
with the co-ordination of the cells, for, 
you see, when in cancer the centrosomes 
are not present, the cells simply go on 
dividing and a tumor may result. 

As the cells increase by reproduction 
in the simple process of cleavage, a 
tumor may more or less rapidly be 
formed; the part becomes inflamed, 
sometimes suppurating, throwing fur¬ 
ther poisons into the system; or, if 
not this, the tumor interferes with the 
functions of the body, and the patient, 
suffering from excruciating pain, merci¬ 
fully expires. 

The best plan would be for every doc¬ 
tor to bear in mind that every case of 
auto-intoxication is an incipient cancer 
case, and seek to restore the healthy 
alkalinity of the blood. Then there 
would be no chance of the cancer de¬ 
veloping. People who are fat and 
heavy are more likely to be cancer cases 
than thin or scraggy individuals, al¬ 
though that is by no means a hard and 


172 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

fast rule, because many cancer cases 
are thin and meager people. 

The proteins and starches should be 
cut down absolutely to a minimum, and 
all fresh fruits and fresh vegetables 
should be made use of in the diet, be¬ 
cause they will not only give the body 
very valuable mineral salts, useful in 
restoring the normal condition of the 
blood, so that it can attack the cancer 
and re-establish the normal condition 
of the tissue, but these very vegetable 
foods in themselves stimulate elimina¬ 
tion if eaten correctly. 

In beginning eating, however, to 
counteract cancer, it is necessary to 
undergo a very radical period of elimi¬ 
nation. Hot baths, at a temperature of 
108-110° F., should be taken morning 
and evening, for twenty to thirty min¬ 
utes at a time. These should be pre¬ 
ceded by full enemas, so as to get the 
alimentary canal cleaned out prepara¬ 
tory to its irrigation by the vegetable 
diet. 

Plenty of fresh air should be ob- 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 173 

tained if possible, and deep breathing 
exercises should also be performed. 

The following is the diet that should 
be taken for the first three weeks: 

BreakfastGlass of orange juice, 
50% water, 50% orange juice, no sweet¬ 
ening of any kind. 

Midday Meal:—Tumbler of vegetable 
soup, made from fresh garden vegeta¬ 
bles, including onions, spinach, carrots, 
turnips, celery, etc. 

Evening Meal:—Any fresh fruit if 
desired. 

At the fourth week the regular fruit 
and fresh vegetable diet should be 
started, and should last for another 
three weeks. It should be on the fol¬ 
lowing plan: 

Breakfast:—Fresh vegetable salad, 
made from lettuce, celery, spring 
onions, cauliflower, and any other gar¬ 
den vegetables to hand. It may be 
made palatable with a little cream 
cheese. 

Midday Meal:—Any fresh fruit in 
season, oranges, apples, pears, rasp¬ 
berries, strawberries, gooseberries, etc. 


174 Eating to Correct Ill-Heai/th 

Evening Meal:—Fresh vegetable stew, 
made from all fresh garden vegetables 
obtainable, onions, spinach, cauliflower, 
fresh cabbage, etc. Both the soup and 
tissue should be eaten, and chewed 
thoroughly. 

There is no need to restrict the 
quantity of food eaten here; in fact, 
the more the better, because it will 
assist alimentary irrigation. Of course, 
during this period it is very important 
to maintain activity of the eliminating 
organs. A hot bath every evening, pre¬ 
ceded by an enema, is essential. 

The seventh week should begin a 
more or less stable diet which should 
last until all traces of the cancer have 
disappeared, and the blood stream is 
normal. 

BreakfastClass of orange juice, 
in which have been beaten up the yolks 
of one or two eggs. 

Midday Meal:—Fresh vegetable stew, 
made as above, and in accordance with 
the recipe in “Healthier and Better 
Cookery”. It may be followed by any 
fresh fruit, if desired. 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 175 


Evening Meal:—May consist of one 
form of a little starchy food, whole 
wheat bread, rye crisps, oatmeal, or 
unpolished rice, etc., made palatable 
with sweet fruits, such as figs, dates, 
prunes, raisins, etc. 

The breakfast and evening meals are 
interchangeable; the starch meal can 
be taken in the morning, and the pro¬ 
tein—egg—meal may be taken in the 
evening. The egg may be taken with¬ 
out the orange juice, or the orange 
juice may be taken without the eggs, 
so as to vary the diet to suit the palate. 
If orange juice is omitted, and the 
eggs only taken, they may be eaten on 
spinach, or with fresh garden cabbage. 

It is absolutely important that the 
starches and proteins be kept down to 
a minimum, and never be mixed. The 
ordinary meal, such as you see people 
eating in all the cafeterias today, is 
poison to the cancer patient, not doubt¬ 
fully, but positively, because it makes 
for that condition of the blood which is 
responsible for the cancer. After all, 
the best way to do away with the 


176 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

disease is to attack its cause, and there 
is not the slightest doubt that the cause 
of all diseases is auto-intoxication set 
up through faulty eating, and lack of 
efficient elimination. 

Persistent effort will briug results; 
at least, / it will do all that is possible. 
The success depends upon the vitality 
the patient has left, and also upon how 
far the disease has been allowed to run. 
If the cancer is detected early, then 
there is every hope that it will disap¬ 
pear, and your doctor will tell you that 
he made a mistake, and that you never 
had a cancer, because he cannot trace 
it any more. Never mind what he 
thinks or says. Be glad that you are 
rid of it. 


CHAPTER XV. 


Diabetes. 

In diabetes the function of the liver 
has become disordered, so that the 
manufacture and release of sugars is 
disorganized. Any attempt to counter¬ 
act the effect of the sugars is only 
playing about with the symptoms of the 
complaint instead of attacking its 
cause. 

The cause of diabetes is auto-intoxi¬ 
cation, just as much as it is the cause 
of any other disease. The effect in the 
case of diabetes has been to throw the 
liver out of balance. 

There is no definite medical cure for 
diabetes. The much heralded insulin, 
which has been used at the Toronto 
General Hospital, is valuable only in 
the last stages of diabetes, in order to 
burn up the sugars, and so prevent 
early death of the patient. Even in 
most of the cases of diabetes at the 
Toronto General Hospital, the home of 


178 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

Insulin, Insulin is not used at all. The 
doctors who use it are aware that diet 
is the most important factor, but they 
are not yet convinced that it is wrong 
eating that is the cause of diabetes; for 
the diet they are placing the diabetes 
patient on is the diet that would even 
bring on diabetes in one with a ten¬ 
dency to it. So their work and their 
energy are wasted because, instead of 
eliminating the diabetes, they are feed¬ 
ing the conditions which promote it. 
The diet they are giving to diabetes 
patients consists of proteins and 
starches mixed, and, although they are 
measuring calories very carefully, there 
is no scientific combination or consti¬ 
tution considered. 

Of course it takes time to get the 
liver back to its normal function, but, 
even if there were a medical cure for 
diabetes, the ordinary diet that the 
same medical people would prescribe 
most likely, would be the very one to 
set up again the condition of diabetes, 
once the patient became well. There¬ 
fore, it is essential, not only for eating 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 179 

for elimination to take place, but, even 
when all symptoms have disappeared, 
for the diet then taken to be absolutely 
correctly planned, so as to keep at bay 
auto-intoxication, the cause of all dis¬ 
ease. 

The patient should begin with a radi¬ 
cal course of elimination. No starches 
or protein should be taken at all, and 
exercise and fresh air should be ob¬ 
tained in order to restore the vitality. 

When the patient is well, both 
starches and proteins may be taken, 
but they should never be taken at the 
same meal. The starches taken should 
be the whole meal starches, and they 
should be eaten only by themselves, 
or with a little sweet fruit to make 
them palatable. 

For the first week, the diet should be 
as follows: 

Breakfast:—Tumbler of fresh vege¬ 
table soup, made from fresh garden 
vegetables, including onions, spinach, 
celery, carrots, turnips, cabbage, etc. 

Midday Meal:—Fresh vegetable stew, 


180 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

made as for the breakfast meal, but 
both tissue and soup may be eaten. 

Evening Meal:—Any fresh fruit 
available, including apples, pears, 
plums, oranges, raspberries, etc., those 
which are desired by the patient. 

The above diet should be taken for 
three weeks, and during this time, an 
enema should be taken morning and 
evening, followed by a hot bath, if 
possible. At any rate, the hot bath 
should be taken each evening. 

The fourth week, the diet may be in¬ 
creased to the following: 

Breakfast:—Glass of orange juice, 
into which have been beaten the yolks 
of two eggs. 

Midday Meal:—Fresh vegetable stew, 
as above. 

Evening Meal:—A small portion of 
one kind of starchy food, which may be 
either of the following: Whole wheat 
bread, oatmeal, rye crisps, rye crackers, 
made palatable by a little sweet fruit, 
such as figs, dates, prunes raisins, etc. 

The above plan should be kept to 
fairly rigidly, although it may be 


Eating to Correct IlLt-Health 181 

varied to suit the patient. Instead of 
the orange juice and eggs may be 
substituted occasionally some fresh 
vegetable salad, made from any fresh 
vegetables, including celery, lettuce, 
spring onions, cauliflower, etc., with a 
little cream cheese to make palatable, 
and give nourishment. The starchy 
meal may also sometimes be taken in 
the morning, and the protein meal in 
the evening, but, under no circum¬ 
stances should the starch be taken with 
the protein, or else only trouble can 
result. Again, under no circumstances, 
must orange juice be included at the 
same meal, or else there will assur¬ 
edly be trouble almost immediately. 

This diet should be adhered to as 
long as any symptoms of the diabetes 
remain. The form of protein may be 
varied, also the form of starchy food 
may be varied; so long as the plan is 
observed all will be well. So long as 
the starch and proteins are not made 
the dominant part of the diet, and so 
long as it is remembered that the fresh 
vegetables and fresh fruit are going 


182 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

to assist Nature in re-establishing the 
normal, healthy, alkaline blood, essen¬ 
tial to good health, and necessary if 
the blood stream and the natural recu¬ 
perative forces of the body are to 
attack the poisons, and to restore the 
normal functioning of the liver once 
more, then there will be no difficulty 
with the diet. 

Deep breathing exercises should be 
done both morning and evening, if pos¬ 
sible in the fresh air. The physical 
exercises given in 4 ‘ Health and Fit¬ 
ness” would be particularly valuable 
to the diabetes patient, because they 
are designed to have a particular effect 
upon the vital muscles, and assist in 
the promotion of normal visceral func¬ 
tioning; because of the auto-massage of 
the viscera obtained in the various 
movements. 

A hot bath, preceded by an enema, 
should be taken at least once a week, 
or even twice a week, and if the bowels 
do not move of their own accord, both 
morning and evening, an enema should 
be resorted to, in order to keep the 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 183 

lower alimentary tract good and clean. 

In spite of the fact that diabetes has 
beaten medical science, it is not such 
a serious thing, if taken in hand early, 
and the eating habits which brought it 
on reformed, and the sufferer practice 
right eating. Of course, in addition 
to the hot baths, lasting from twenty 
to thirty minutes at a high tempera¬ 
ture, the morning sponge down is 
essential, so as to give the skin a 
good chance. The excretions from the 
skin must be washed away every morn¬ 
ing. A good brisk toweling will keep 
the skin in that order so as to maintain 
its eliminative function in the highest 
state of activity so essential for the 
throwing off of the complaint. 

When all signs and symptoms of 
diabetes have disappeared, it is more 
than foolish to go back to the old meth¬ 
ods of eating. The diet given for the 
normal healthy man in “Correct and 
Corrective Eating’’ is quite all right 
for the person who has suffered from 
diabetes. He will be glad to know that 
he can eat pretty well just what he 


184 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

wants, so long as he does not take the 
devitalized and demineralized commer¬ 
cial starches. But he can eat lamb 
chops and steaks, if they are properly 
cooked, without condiments, and eaten 
only with fresh vegetables, such as 
cabbage, spinach, onions, tomatoes, 
string beans, etc., but no potatoes. He 
can also enjoy a good baked potato, 
so long as he takes only butter with it, 
or fresh vegetables; hut he must never 
mix potatoes and meat, or bread and 
meat, or any starches and proteins at 
the same meal. 

He must also keep his vitality at the 
highest pitch by regular exercise, and 
by getting a sufficiency of fresh air. 
No man can keep healthy, truly healthy, 
that is, without exercise and fresh air. 


CHAPTER XVI. 


Anaemia. 

Anaemia is bloodlessness, and causes 
paleness and general weakness. It is 
due to insufficiency of red corpuscles in 
the blood. 

The redness of the blood is deter¬ 
mined by the red blood corpuscles, 
which in turn depend for their redness 
upon a substance called Haemoglobin. 
Haemoglobin is the substance which 
absorbs the oxygen from the air 
breathed in the lungs. It is easily 
oxydised, so that it becomes Oxy-Hae- 
moglobin, and when it reaches the tis¬ 
sues, it is de-oxydised, and becomes 
Haemoglobin once more, until it 
reaches the lungs, and is oxydised into 
Oxy-Haemoglobin again. 

One of the chief constituents of Hae¬ 
moglobin is iron. That is why people 
not yet familiar with biological laws, 
endeavor to give you iron compounds 
for your anaemia. Quinine and iron, 


186 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

and iron in all sorts of forms, are given 
in the endeavor to build up the red 
corpuscles of the blood. However, 
they fail miserably, because it is the 
first law of biology that only in living 
vital food is it possible for the body 
to assimilate minerals. No matter how 
long you eat iron, if it is in a crude 
state, in a not living state, that is, it is 
impossible for it to assist in the build¬ 
ing up of Haemoglobin. 

But what it is important to remem¬ 
ber is that the anaemia is caused chiefly 
through the wrong eating methods, 
both in a diet that does not supply the 
iron elements and other elements nec¬ 
essary to the construction of the Hae¬ 
moglobin, and also foods eaten in such 
a way as to prevent the assimilation of 
the food that is eaten. 

The commercial demineralized and 
devitalized products are greatly to 
blame in many cases, while of course, 
the lack of vegetable foods of the fresh 
variety; lack of fresh air is also to 
blame in many cases, while of course, 
if exercise is not indulged in, this will 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 187 

assist the other factors to set up the 
anaemia, in spite of all the concoctions 
of iron that may he swallowed. 

The body will usually be found to be 
in an auto-intoxicated condition. The 
patient is weak anyway, nervous, and 
unable to build up food into good tis¬ 
sues. What is necessary is radical 
elimination of the poisons now prevent¬ 
ing nourishment, and the substitution 
of eating habits that will supply the 
necessary elements for the restoration 
of the normal healthy alkaline blood, 
and the building up of the red blood 
corpuscles. 

For the first three weeks the follow¬ 
ing diet should be taken. At the same 
time, a hot bath should be given every 
evening before retiring, at a tempera¬ 
ture between 108° and 110° F., for 
from twenty to thirty minutes. This is 
in addition to the morning sponge down 
of the body, followed by brisk toweling. 

Breakfast:—Glass of lemon juice, 
20% lemon juice, 80% of water. No 
sugar or sweetening of any kind to be 


188 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

added. To be sipped very slowly and 
carefully. 

Midday Meal:—Fresh vegetable stew, 
made from onions, spinach, celery, tur¬ 
nips, carrots, etc. Both liquid and tis¬ 
sue should be eaten carefully. 

Evening Meal: — Fresh vegetable 
salad, composed of lettuce, spring 
onions, celery, cauliflower, etc., and 
made palatable with cream cheese of a 
good variety, such as Kraft’s or Mao- 
laren’s. 

After three weeks the hot bath may 
be discontinued, but the enema should 
be taken if no action of the bowels is 
forthcoming without. However, there 
ought not to be any difficulty, if the 
chapter of this book relating to con¬ 
stipation is read and observed in addi¬ 
tion to this part. 

After the third week, the diet may be 
changed to the following: 

Breakfast:—One form of starchy 
food, such as bread, oatmeal, unpol¬ 
ished rice, rye, crisps, etc., made pala¬ 
table with sweet fruit, such as figs, 
dates, prunes, raisins, etc. 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 189 

Midday Meal: — Fresh vegetable 
salad, as above, and any fresh fruit, 
such as oranges, apples, pears, plums, 
etc., desirable. 

Evening Meal:—One form of protein 
food, such as eggs, nuts, milk, cheese, 
lamb chops, lean meat, if desired, to¬ 
gether with fresh vegetables, such as 
fresh garden cabbage, cauliflower, 
brussels sprouts, onions, spinach, etc. 
Every portion of the food must be 
chewed very thoroughly. Mastication 
is all important to the sufferer from 
anaemia. 

The diet may be varied a little, but 
the plan above must be observed 
throughout. There is plenty of lati¬ 
tude in it. The vegetables may be 
varied, the form of starchy food, and 
also the form of protein food may be 
varied, but it must be observed as a 
general plan. It is also important to 
remember that only one form of pro¬ 
tein food, and only one form of starchy 
food must be taken at a time. Never 
must the starches and proteins be 
mixed; if this is done, the digestion will 


190 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

be retarded, and consequently the old 
condition will be set up. What is nec¬ 
essary is to build up in the blood 
stream the element in which it is lack¬ 
ing, and the only way to do this is to 
keep the alimentary canal cleaned 
through and through, and to keep the 
body tissue clean by supplying it with 
healthy, clean, alkaline blood. 

Deep breathing exercises should be 
done morning and evening, and also 
a good set of exercises which will draw 
the blood to the limbs and to the su¬ 
perficial muscles of the body. If none 
are being done as a habit, those given 
in “Health and Fitness’’ should be 
practiced to get the best results. 


CHAPTER XVII. 


Acidity. 

By acidity I mean that condition in 
which the sufferer belches up acid gas 
or wind, or even some of the acid mass 
in the stomach. Acidity is the outcome 
of poor digestion after the organs have 
been abused by faulty food combination 
and wrong methods of living generally. 
Contrary to what people expect, acidity 
is not set up so much by acid fruits as 
by the fermentation of starches if 
these starches are taken with the acid 
fruits, or even if they are taken with 
proteins. Of course, when the stomach 
is in an acid condition, it hardly mat¬ 
ters whatever is put into it, because 
the food merely stirs up the acid poi¬ 
sons remaining in the stomach, and 
they are belched up, to the discomfort 
of the sufferer. So, whatever he takes 
into his system, he says, or at least he 
thinks, that is the cause of his acidity. 
What really is the cause, is the mixing 


192 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

up of all sorts of foods without con¬ 
cern for their effect on the stomach. 

In some cases of acidity it is even 
useless to take acid fruits, although, 
be it remembered, acid fruits are poten- 
tialy alkaline. They supply, that is, 
those salts which help to render the 
blood alkaline, and so to counteract the 
acidity. However, there is no need to 
give acid fruits if these cause incon¬ 
venience. It is important, however, to 
clean through the alimentary canal in 
order to get out the putrid mass caus¬ 
ing the acidity, and then to allow some 
time for the poisons to he thrown off 
by the various emunctories of the body 
until the whole body is in a good, clean, 
healthy, alkaline condition, and ready 
to take food properly. 

For two weeks the diet should be as 
follows: 

Breakfast:—A tumblerful of fresh 
vegetable soup, made from onions, spin¬ 
ach, fresh garden cabbage, celery, etc. 

Midday Meal:—Fresh vegetable stew, 
this may include the vegetables left 
over from the morning soup, and eaten 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 193 


together with more water added. This 
should he chewed very slowly and care¬ 
fully. 

Evening Meal: — Fresh vegetable 
salad, which may include lettuce, celery, 
spring onions, cauliflower, etc. Most 
people don’t know how tasty raw cauli¬ 
flower is ; so long as it is chewed thor¬ 
oughly, it will assist very considerably 
the sufferer from acidity. 

In conjunction with the above diet, 
there should he a hot bath every eve¬ 
ning, in addition to the ordinary sponge 
down every morning, as advised in my 
other hooks, “Health and Fitness”, etc. 
If there is any difficulty with the bow¬ 
els, an enema should be resorted to. 
They must move twice each day at the 
very least. If you get somebody to use 
the stomach pump for the first three 
days, you will feel flne after it. 

Three weeks of the above diet ought 
to he sufficient to clear out all the old 
putrid rubbish from the alimentary 
canal, and to establish a fair condition. 
However, even then the diet must he 
very carefully planned, so as to exclude 


194 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

too many starches and proteins. The 
folowing is a good diet that may be 
maintained for another three weeks, 
before the normal one, as outlined in 
“Correct and Corrective Eating’’, is 
resumed: 

Breakfast: — Raw fresh vegetable 
salad, as above, made palatable with 
any sweet fruit, such as dates, figs, 
prunes, etc. 

Midday Meal:—Fresh vegetable stew, 
made as above of all fresh vegetables 
to hand. 

Evening Meal:—A tumbler of milk, 
or some cheese, with any fresh fruit 
available, such as apples, pears, plums, 
raspberries, etc. 

The above plan should be followed 
fairly strictly, although variations in 
the vegetables, or the changing around 
of the meals is quite permissible, in 
fact, valuable. 

During this diet and after it, a hot 
bath need only be taken once a week, 
although it is important to see that the 
bowels act. If there should be any 
difficulty, which there ought not to be, 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 195 

then an enema must be used to keep the 
lower bowel clean. 

Fresh air and exercise are also essen¬ 
tial. Without these, you cannot expect 
the best results. 

After six weeks, the diet may be 
planned somewhat as follows, and on 
a line with the correct principles of 
food combination as expounded in 
“Correct and Corrective Eating”, 
should be intermingled. 

Breakfast:—Some starchy food, such 
as whole wheat bread, rye crisps, rye 
crackers, shredded wheat, oatmeal por 
ridge, etc., made palatable with sweet 
fruits, as above. 

Midday MealTumbler of milk, 
with any fresh fruits available or some 
raw vegetable salad, as above. 

Evening Meal:—Any form of pro¬ 
tein food, eggs, cheese, nuts, or lean 
meat, with fresh vegetables, not pota¬ 
toes, but may include onions, spinach, 
string beans, fresh garden cabbage, 
brussels sprouts, cauliflower, etc. 

As soon as acidity is present, it is 
a sign that the body needs cleaning up. 


196 Eating to Correct Ill-Heai/fh 

For some time, the tongue will be 
white, exhibiting the cleaning up 
process, but, after a time, if the above 
suggestions are carried out accurately 
and conscientiously, the result will be 
certain. 


CHAPTEB XVIII. 


Sex Weaknesses. 

Sex weaknesses and abnormalities 
are aggravated by wrong eating. If 
instead of an alkaline, soothing medinm, 
the reproductive nerve apparatus is 
bathed in an acid irritating medium, 
then all kinds of tendencies of an ab¬ 
normal character are likely to attack 
the individual. 

One of the most common complaints 
set up in old age through this is pros¬ 
tatitis, a slight inflammation of the 
prostate gland, causing irritation of 
desire without ability for satisfaction. 

Many young people are led into 
temptation because of a blood stream 
saturated with the products of auto¬ 
intoxication. If they learn to eat cor¬ 
rectly they will have, not only a cleaner, 
healthier blood to supply the brain 
with cleaner and healthier thoughts, 
but will do away with irritations which 


198 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

are likely to stimulate an unnatural 
desire. 

On the other hand, the natural vigor 
may be impaired by the inability of 
the blood to nourish the glands, owing 
to its saturation with toxic products. 
Thus one of the most important func¬ 
tions making for happiness in marriage 
may be disordered. 

The thing to remember is that in the 
normal person, that is, the person with 
the blood stream in a clean, healthy 
condition, where the preventive forces 
are sufficiently powerful to attack any 
disease forces with success, where the 
blood stream is nourishing the brain, 
and keeping it at the height of effi¬ 
ciency, and also nourishing the muscles, 
so that there is muscular health and 
energy, the reproductive functions will 
be normal, and there will be on abnor¬ 
mal irritation which will seek an un¬ 
natural satisfaction. 

Often a radical eliminative diet will 
do more than anything to re-establish 
physical harmony. 

People are only too ready to point 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 199 

the hand of scorn at those who have 
fallen by the way. Later on, human 
society will recognize that these are 
pathological cases, and that they should 
have the attention of a good physician, 
and the physician will recognize that 
the chief cause of the pathological cases 
is wrong eating. If the food really 
nourishes, and maintains the body in 
continuous balance, then the temp¬ 
tations which lead so frequently to 
young people’s destruction will lose 
their power, in fact, cease to exist alto¬ 
gether, if coupled with sensible sex 
education. 

The following diet should be taken 
for the first three weeks. 

BreakfastFresh vegetable salad, 
made from lettuce, celery, spring 
onions, cauliflower, etc., made palatable 
with any sweet fruit, figs, dates, prunes, 
raisins, etc. 

Midday Meal:—A tumbler of milk, 
and any fresh fruits available, oranges, 
apples, pears, peaches, plums, straw¬ 
berries, raspberries, etc. 

Evening Meal: — Fresh vegetable 


200 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

stew, made from onions, carrots, 
spinach, celery, turnips, etc. Both the 
soup and the tissue to be eaten very 
slowly and carefully. 

After three weeks, the diet may be 
increased to the following: 

Breakfast:—A little starchy food; 
maybe one of the following:—whole¬ 
wheat bread, rye crisps, rye crackers, 
oatmeal, unpolished rice, or shredded 
wheat, etc., made palatable with figs, 
dates, prunes, etc. 

Midday Meal:—Fresh vegetable stew, 
or fresh vegetable salad as above, and 
any fresh fruits in season, oranges, 
apples, plums, pears, grapes, straw¬ 
berries, etc. 

Evening Meal:—One form of protein 
food; such as eggs, cheese, milk, nuts, 
or lean meat, if desired, together with 
any form of fresh vegetable food, in¬ 
cluding onions, spinach, cauliflower, 
string beans, brussels sprouts, etc. The 
water in which the vegetables have been 
cooked should be taken as a soup, either 
with, preceding, or following, this meal. 

The above plan should be kept to 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 201 

more or less for a considerable time. 
It will supply all the nourishment 
necessary to the body, while at the 
same time tending to correct it. As 
soon as conditions are absolutely 
normal, the diet may be varied in ac¬ 
cordance with the principles given in 
“Correct and Corrective Eating”. The 
above diet will do all that is possible to 
re-establish harmony in the body, but 
it must be remembered that other 
factors, including exercise and fresh 
air, are very, very important. It is 
absolutely essential to get out for at 
least two hours every day into the 
fresh air. Some deep breathing exer¬ 
cises should also be performed. 

A cool sponge down every" morning, 
is very beneficial. It should be followed 
by brisk toweling. It must also not be 
forgotten that a great deal of sex weak¬ 
ness is caused by ignorance of vital 
matters. In fact, even those who are 
best informed on these matters are 
often entirely ignorant of many physio¬ 
logical conditions; and what is more 
important, of psychological conditions 


202 Eating to Correct Ill-Hearth 

which affect matters very seriously. 
The sex emotions are bound up with 
the most refined and intimate senti¬ 
ments. Wrong thoughts and wrong 
views gained through faulty education 
in sex matters may cause a great deal 
of trouble. That is the reason for the 
necessity for sound sex education based 
on scientific facts. 


CHAPTER XIX. 


Bad Breath. 

When the breath is bad, it is a sign 
that the alimentary canal is in a 
putrefying condition, due to the re¬ 
tardation of food which should have 
passed through, but, which, owing to 
the wrong food combination, and faulty 
methods of living, has remained there 
to putrefy and to render the breath 
foul. 

Bad breath is most objectionable to 
all with whom you come in contact, but 
it is one of the best signs that Nature 
can give to denote that the alimentary 
canal is in a bad condition, and that, 
unless matters are cleaned up, this bad¬ 
ness will get into the blood stream, and 
an illness be the almost inevitable re¬ 
sult. 

The preliminary diet should be one 
that should allow of elimination. All 
the starches and proteins should be cut 


204 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

out for at least two weeks, and fresh 
vegetables and fresh fruits substituted. 

The following is a good diet: 

Breakfast:—A glass of orange juice, 
50% orange juice, 50% water. 

Midday Meal .-—Fresh vegetable salad, 
made from lettuce, celery, spring 
onions, cauliflower, etc., made palatable 
with sweet fruit, such as figs, prunes, 
raisins, etc., also any fresh fruits in 
season, oranges, apples, etc. 

Evening Meal: — Fresh vegetable 
stew. Both the soup in which the 
vegetables have been cooked and the 
tissue should be eaten slowly and care¬ 
fully. The vegetables used may include 
onions, spinach, celery, turnips, carrots, 
etc. 

It is very important to see that the 
bowels move two to three times every 
day. If they don’t, a little help should 
be given in the form of an enema. It 
is good, too, for the first two weeks, to 
take a hot bath every evening, at a 
temperature of from 108-110° F., for 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 205 

twenty to thirty minutes, until a 
healthy perspiration is set up. 

After two weeks, the diet may be in¬ 
creased to the following: 

BreakfastOrange juice, in which 
have been beaten up the yolks of two 
eggs. 

Midday MealFresh vegetable salad, 
made as above, with any fresh fruits 
in season. 

Evening Meal: — Fresh vegetable 
stew, as above. 

After four weeks, the diet may be 
as follows: 

Breakfast:—A starchy food, such as 
wholewheat bread, rye crisps, rye 
crackers, shredded wheat, oatmeal, or 
unpolished rice, etc., made palatable 
with sweet fruits, such as figs, prunes, 
dates, etc. 

Midday Meal:—Fresh vegetable stew, 
made with any fresh vegetables to hand 
as above, followed by fresh fruit as 
obtainable, oranges, apples, pears, 
plums, peaches, strawberries, rasp¬ 
berries, etc. 

Evening Meal:—One form of protein 


206 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

food; it could be any one of the follow¬ 
ing : eggs, nuts, milk, cheese, or chicken, 
if desired, with some fresh vegetables, 
spinch, onions, fresh cabbage, brnssel 
sprouts, cauliflower, etc. 

This diet should be more or less kept 
to with regard to plan, until all traces 
of bad breath have disappeared, and 
then the sufferer may resume the diet 
for the normal person, as given in 
“Correct and Corrective Eating”. Any 
amount of food for which there is real 
appetite may be taken, and the 
quantities will be regulated normally if 
the plan as given above is adhered to, 
that is, one meal composed of protein 
and fresh vegetables, another meal of 
starch with sweet fruit, and the third 
meal composed of fresh vegetables and 
fresh fruits only. 

It is important to remember that 
exercise and fresh air are absolutely 
essential, and especially fresh air. 
Deep breathing exercises should be 
taken two or three times a day. Throw 
open the windows, if it is not possible 
to get right out into the fresh air, in- 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 207 


hale to the fullest extent, then exhale 
to the fullest extent. 

The morning sponge down or bath is 
very important also. The hot bath 
need not he taken more than once a 
week from now on, but it is important 
to keep the skin active by the regular 
morning sponge down, followed by brisk 
toweling, after a good course of exer¬ 
cises has been performed. 
















CHAPTER XX. 

Headache. 

Headaches are extremely annoying, 
yet they are a valuable sign that some¬ 
thing is radically wrong with the body, 
and if yon suffer from headaches the 
best thing you can do is to clean up so 
as to get rid of them. If you just take 
palliatives, that is, headache powders, 
without doing away with the cause of 
the headaches, the poison is going to 
come out in some other way, and result 
in much more inconvenience than a 
mere headache. 

The reason for a headache is that 
the gases often rise from the stomach, 
or that the normal alkalinity of the 
blood stream has been lessened, so that, 
instead of the soothing medium, the 
nerves in the head are bathed in an 
irritating acid medium. This is the 
case most particularly when you get a 
11 splitting 9 ’ headache. 

Another cause of headache is high 


210 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

blood pressure, when the blood is 
saturated with the products of proteins 
and starches causing auto-intoxication. 

The quickest way to relieve a head¬ 
ache is to get into a hot bath, and to stay 
there for from twenty to thirty minutes. 
This will take the blood away from 
the head, relieving the congestion there. 
There is not the slightest reason to take 
headache powders at all, because you 
can stop the pain of a headache at any 
moment by this means, and at the 
same time help to eliminate, because a 
perspiration ought to be forthcoming 
and other organs are set into activity. 

Headaches usually accompany consti¬ 
pation. If the sufferer is constipated, 
he should read the chapter of this book 
relating to constipation, so as to get 
rid of it. In any case, he needs some 
elimination, and he should attempt to 
get the alimentary canal cleaned 
through, and then kept in a clean con¬ 
dition, so that the whole body, including 
the blood stream, can get cleaned up. 

The best way is to learn how to eat, 
not only to get rid of the headaches, 


Eating to Correct Ili^Health 211 

but also to keep them away. There is 
not the slightest need for headaches, 
and if the rules of correct eating are 
adhered to, and a little fresh air and 
exercise are indulged in, there should 
not be headaches. 

To start the cleaning up process, the 
following diet for the first two weeks, 
will be very beneficial: 

Breakfast:—Glass of lemon juice, 
20% lemon juice, 80% water. 

Midday Meal .-—Fresh vegetable salad, 
of lettuce, celery, spring onions, cauli¬ 
flower, tomatoes; and fresh fruit, which 
may include apples, pears, oranges, 
raspberries, strawberries, plums, etc. 

Evening Meal:—Fresh vegetable stew, 
made from any fresh garden vegetables 
to hand, and including fresh garden 
cabbage, onions, spinach, celery, turnips, 
etc. 

After the first two weeks, the follow¬ 
ing diet may be taken, and it should 
keep away any future chances of head¬ 
ache, provided, of course, that other 
rules of hygiene are observed. 


212 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

Breakfast:—Fresh vegetable salad, 
with a little cheese, or nuts. 

Midday Meal:—Fresh vegetable stew, 
made as above, from any fresh vege¬ 
tables to hand. 

Evening Meal:—A tumbler of milk, 
a^id any fresh fruit in season, including 
apples, plums, pears, peaches, goose¬ 
berries, etc. 

After four weeks, the diet may he 
increased pretty well to the diet for the 
normal person, although under no cir¬ 
cumstances should the vegetables be 
minimized, or should the starches and 
proteins be mixed. Under no circum¬ 
stances should starchy food be taken 
with acid fruit. 

Breakfast:—A starchy food; such as 
oatmeal, porridge, wholewheat bread, 
unpolished rice, or rye crisps, etc., 
taken with sweet fruits, as above, to 
make palatable. 

Midday Meal:—Fresh vegetable salad, 
and any fresh fruit obtainable. 

Evening Meal:—One form of protein 
food; such as nuts, eggs, cheese, or 
milk, etc., with such fresh vegetables 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 213 

as brussels sprouts, spinach, cauli¬ 
flower, string beans, etc., as desired. 

A hot bath should be taken about 
once a week, but the general sponge 
down of the whole body must be taken 
every morning regularly. The bowels 
should be kept open, and should act, 
(and will act, if this eating is taken 
conscientiously), two to three times a 
day. However, a day should never be 
missed without an evacuation, and if it 
should not be forthcoming, an enema 
should be taken to ensure it. If there 
is any constipation, it simply means 
that the body has not yet sufficiently 
cleaned up, and another process of eat¬ 
ing for elimination, as explained in 
the chapter of this book devoted to 
constipation, should be undergone. 

As much time as possible should be 
spent in the fresh air, and deep 
breathing exercises should be indulged 
in regularly, and some good physical 
exercises performed both morning and 
evening. 

Thus it will be possible, not only to 
keep free from headaches, but to build 


214 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

up health in every muscle and in every 
organ of the body. When you are free 
from headaches, that means to say that 
you are more immune from disease. 
After all, that’s the sort of body to 
possess, one which will not take any 
disease which happens to be going, but, 
because of its healthy, clean condition, 
is able to resist all the forces of ill 
health and to maintain that efficiency 
of functioning which makes life enjoy¬ 
able. 


CHAPTER XXI. 


Kidney and Bladder Trouble. 

When too much strain is thrown on 
the kidneys, which are excretory 
organs, their function is sometimes de¬ 
ranged and the condition extends to the 
bladder. Too frequent urination, pain 
in the small of the back, and general 
inconvenience result. 

The habit of too frequent micturition 
is one that is easily acquired if the 
eating habits are not scientific. The 
best plan is to form the habit of 
micturating prior to retiring, refrain¬ 
ing from taking a drink then, and to 
wait till morning before emptying the 
bladder again. 

This is the natural procedure, but 
people who have a tendency to weak 
kidneys, or to kidney or bladder 
trouble, find themselves getting up 
several times during the night; it starts 
once or twice, but if the call is answered 
every time, then the habit speeds up, 


216 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

and the nuisance of too frequent 
micturition takes firm hold. 

In spite of the many authorities who 
advise saturating the body with water, 
it is not a good plan. A tumblerful or 
half tumblerful of water when rising in 
the morning is good, but to take five 
or six glasses or five or six pints, as 
some people advise, is folly, because 
all that water has to go into the blood, 
and the blood has to get rid of it. 

The best way to secure sufficient 
liquid is through vegetable soups and 
stews, and through the juices of the 
fresh fruits. Water often dilutes the 
digestive ferments, and renders them 
less powerful. Also, if iced, it lowers 
the temperature of the stomach, and 
makes digestion harder in consequence, 
because the stomach has to be at a 
certain temperature before digestion 
can take place. 

The best plan is to live on an all 
fruit and vegetable diet for a month at 
least. The following diet is heartily 
recommended: 

Breakfast:—Orange juice, in which 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 217 


has been beaten up the yolks of two 
eggs. 

Midday MealFresh vegetable salad, 
composed of lettuce, celery, spring 
onions, cauliflower, tomatoes, etc., made 
palatable with some fresh cream cheese. 

Evening MealFresh vegetable stew, 
made from onions, spinach, carrots, 
turnips, etc. 

After four weeks, the diet for a 
normal healthy person, on the scientific 
plan as explained in “Correct and 
Corrective Eating” will keep the 
functions of the kidneys normal. The 
matter of forming right habits is one 
for the moral and mental control of the 
individual, and if too much liquid food 
is not taken, no harm can result. 

However, it is important to remember 
that abnormal sex indulgence and its 
result, prostatitis, have a tendency to 
cause the habit of too frequent mic¬ 
turition. The habit should be governed 
mentally; the function should not be 
thought about too frequently, and if it 
makes an appeal, it should be dismissed 
until the individual is conscious that 


218 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

the bladder is really full. Expelling 
the contents of the bladder in small 
quantities is the way to develop the 
habit, and retention until the bladder 
is full is the best way to counteract it, 
in addition of course, to right habits. 


CHAPTER XXII. 


High Blood Pressure. 

High blood pressure is merely a sign 
that the blood stream has become 
saturated with food products in an 
abnormal condition, and that the elimi¬ 
nating organs are not functioning 
efficiently. It is a dangerous condition, 
and should be remedied as speedily as 
possible. 

It is most usually those people who 
overeat who suffer from high blood 
pressure, but really more depends upon 
the care taken of the food combination 
than upon the actual food eaten. For 
instance, if you combine your food the 
right way, you can eat absolutely as 
much as you wish without endangering 
yourself with high blood pressure. On 
the other hand, you may eat less 
quantity of food, and mix the foods up 
unscientifically until digestion is re¬ 
tarded and the blood becomes saturated 
with the products of auto-intoxication. 


220 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

Exercise is another very important 
factor, and unless exercises are per¬ 
formed both morning and evening, the 
ordinary diet is likely to bring on high 
blood pressure in those who have a pre¬ 
disposition to it. 

Correcting the diet is not so much a 
matter of knocking out the proteins as 
restricting their use with starches at 
the same meal, also limiting the pro¬ 
tein food to one form at only one meal 
a day. T^he following diet should be 
taken for two weeks, prior to resuming 
the diet which will keep the high blood 
pressure at bay. 

BreakfastClass of lemon juice, 
20% lemon juice, 80% water, no 
sweetening. 

Midday MealFresh vegetable stew, 
made from any fresh garden vegetables 
to hand, including onions, spinach, 
turnips, carrots, etc. 

Evening Meal: — Fresh vegetable 
salad, made from tomatoes, celery, 
lettuce, raw cauliflower, etc., and any 
fresh fruit available, apples, pears, 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 221 

oranges, plums, raspberries, straw¬ 
berries, etc., in season. 

A hot bath, at a temperature of from 
108-110° F., for twenty to thirty 

minutes, every evening for the first 
week is very beneficial. Of course, this 
is in addition to the complete sponge 
down every morning. 

After the first two weeks, the diet 
may be increased to the following plan, 
which should be maintained although 
varied according to taste. 

Breakfast:—A starchy food, such as 
oatmeal, rye crisps, rye crackers, shred¬ 
ded wheat, wholewheat bread, etc., 
made palatable with sweet fruit, dates, 
figs, prunes, raisins, etc. 

Midday Meal:—May be composed of 
one form of protein food; one of the 
following: fish, eggs, cheese, milk, lean 
meat if desired, with one or two fresh 
vegetables, such as string beans, onions, 
spinach, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, 
etc. The water in which these have 
been boiled should be taken as the soup 
at the same meal. 

Evening Meal: — Fresh vegetable 


222 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

salad, and any fresh fruits in season, 
as above. 

Plenty of fresh air should he ob¬ 
tained, and some good exercises in¬ 
volving auto-mas sage of the viscera 
should be performed both morning and 
evening. Auto-intoxication frequently 
attacks those who do not get sufficient 
exercise, and the best way to counter¬ 
act it, in addition to eating correctly, 
is to do a few movements which keep 
the visceral organs well worked, and 
also strengthen the vital muscles of 
the body. If you are not in the habit 
of doing such a course of exercises at 
present, your best plan is to get a 
copy of “Health and Fitness”, and do 
regularly and conscientiously the 
course of physical culture given in that 
book. The exercises are easy to do, 
but ensure well toned vital muscles. 

It is very essential to keep high 
blood pressure at bay. It is a sign 
that any other form of ill health may 
follow; cancer often attacks the person 
with high blood pressure; diabetes is 
another complaint which may follow it, 


Eating to Correct Illt-Health 223 


or Arterio-Sclerosis and other patho¬ 
logical conditions of the blood vessels, 
and last, hnt not least, heart disease. 

Usually it is the naturally strong and 
robust person who suffers from high 
blood pressure. Nature has endowed 
him with a strong, big body, hut she 
makes him suffer unless he gives it the 
attention necessary to keep it in con¬ 
dition. 


CHAPTER XXIII. 


Conclusion. 

I have endeavored in these fore¬ 
going pages to outline in detail the 
methods of eating for the eradication 
of ill health and for the establishment 
of a condition of good health. It must 
be borne strictly in mind that what I 
have said relates to the cases referred 
to, but that the diet for healthy people 
should be reformed according to the 
principles of my book “Correct and 
Corrective Eating” for those who 
merely want to know how to eat cor¬ 
rectly to keep in good health or to cor¬ 
rect slight indispositions due to wrong 
eating. 

A healthy person requires only one 
starch meal a day, and one protein 
meal a day. Only one form of pro¬ 
tein should be taken at one meal a 
day, and only one form of starch at 
another meal, but only once a day. 
Two meals a day are enough for any 


226 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

healthy person, but if another meal is 
made up of fresh fruit and fresh 
vegetables only, then no harm can come 
of it. 

With regard to the proper method 
of preparing the dishes, it is best for 
the reader to get a copy of “ Healthier 
and Better Cookery”, in which the 
preparation of food is dealt with in 
detail, and the various dishes which 
will appeal to the palate while build¬ 
ing up health, strength and fitness. 

In every case of ill health it is nec¬ 
essary to undergo the preliminary 
cleaning up period. What is necessary 
is that the organs of elimination be 
set into the highest state of activity 
possible, because that is the only true 
way of throwing off disease. It is Na¬ 
ture’s way of doing it, and by eating 
in the way I have suggested it is pos¬ 
sible to assist Nature in this her great 
work. 

In the preparation of vegetable stew, 
which figures largely in the menus 
given for the first few weeks of the 
cleaning up period, it is necessary to 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 227 

remember that all the water used to 
cook the vegetables must be eaten. To 
throw away the water is to throw away 
the most valuable part, because in 
cooking, the valuable salts are boiled 
out into the water, and so it is neces¬ 
sary to drink the soup in order to take 
full advantage of the vegetables. It 
must not be thought that there is no 
taste in this stew or in the soup. If 
you can’t taste the goodness in them, 
well, then there is something the mat¬ 
ter with your taste. Wait until you 
have cleaned up, and then learn how 
delicious are the fresh vegetable juices 
and you will regret all the years you 
wasted spoiling your food with strong 
condiments. 

There are many bad habits of eating 
that should be borne in mind, so that, 
after you have overcome your condi¬ 
tion of ill health, you do not sink back 
into them. 

For instance, the common way of 
taking peanut butter is with bread. 
This is a very bad way of taking it, the 
two together being indigestible, so set- 


228 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

ting up constipation immediately; be¬ 
cause both the bread and the peanut but¬ 
ter are heavy, nutritive foods, and the 
stomach cannot take them together. 
For instance, bread is digested by an 
alkaline ferment, and the peanut but¬ 
ter by an acid ferment, and both re¬ 
quire such concentration that to mix 
the two almost certainly causes dis¬ 
aster. 

Peanut butter is very good to eat, 
but the next time you take it put it on 
some fresh vegetable salad. Get some 
lettuce, celery, tomatoes, etc., chop 
them up, and then just smear with 
some peanut butter, and eat together. 
Gee! It tastes fine, and it will really 
nourish you instead of injuring you. 

Many people are under the impres¬ 
sion that acid fruits will cause acidity, 
and therefore, when they are suffering 
from a lessening of the normal alka¬ 
linity of the blood, they will often re¬ 
frain from taking acid fruit. Now, 
there is not the slightest doubt that too 
much acid fruit will affect the body in 
this way, but it must be remembered 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 229 


that if eaten carefully, that is, in not 
too great abundance, and not combined 
with anything but proteins or fresh 
vegetables, then they are alkali pro¬ 
ducing, because they contain in them 
the mineral elements which go towards 
making the blood alkaline. As a mat¬ 
ter of fact, it has been proved that 
lemon juice is an antiseptic, and germs 
in the alimentary canal are broken 
down and swept through when lemon 
juice is taken. However, if you take 
a glass of lemon juice, and then eat a 
slice of white bread after it, you are 
storing up trouble for yourself, and 
you will probably get it soon after¬ 
wards, because you will surely suffer 
from acidity after that. No. Take 
your acid by itself, or with a protein 
food, and then, at another meal alto¬ 
gether take your starchy food, as ex¬ 
plained in this book, and in ‘ 4 Correct 
and Corrective Eating”. 

Most people dealing with the diet 
question refer to one or two articles of 
diet as being injurious. For instance, 
often people will say they cannot eat 


230 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

strawberries, or that they disagree with 
them, or they cannot eat oranges, or 
they cannot eat meat or nuts. Each 
item of food is picked out as injurious 
to the individual, but there is an error 
in this. Most foods are good to eat 
for everybody. It depends on the way 
you combine them. If you take lean 
meat, and put it between slices of 
bread, and eat it as a sandwich, either 
the meat or the bread will disagree 
with you sooner or later, and you will 
suffer ill health. 

But if you take the meat at one 
meal, and the bread at another, then 
they will both nourish you, because 
they will both be digested and assim¬ 
ilated without difficulty. It is just the 
same with eggs. People “can’t” eat 
eggs or cheese, because they think they 
can’t digest them. But let them take 
eggs lightly boiled with celery, toma¬ 
toes, or even alone, and they will find 
that they can eat them without any in¬ 
digestion, contrary to what they prev¬ 
iously imagined. 

When I was a boy, I once got a beat- 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 231 

ing from my mother because I ate my 
egg without any bread. I would now 
feel more inclined to chastise my boy 
if I found him eating eggs with his 
bread. My mother told me that I must 
dilute the egg, which is a very concen¬ 
trated form of food, with the bread; 
otherwise I would be billious, and suf¬ 
fer from indigestion. 

I never eat bread with my eggs now, 
yet I eat quite a few because eggs are 
very nourishing; I take a little baked 
tomato or spinach with them, and I 
enjoy this and get the maximum of 
nourishment from it. 

My mother could never eat nuts, be¬ 
cause they caused violent constipation. 
I could tell her now how to eat nuts 
without developing constipation. All 
you have to do is to eat them with 
some fresh fruit, or fresh vegetable 
salad; they taste better, are more palat¬ 
able, more easily digested, and don’t 
get a chance to linger in the alimentary 
canal to the detriment of the body. 

It is the same with cheese. Cheese 
eaten with bread is indigestible and 


232 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

constipating, but take it with fresh vege¬ 
table salad, made up of chopped up 
celery, lettuce, tomatoes, etc.! It tastes 
fine, and not only does it not cause con¬ 
stipation, but it deliberately assists in 
bringing about bowel movment. 

Milk is a concentrated protein food, 
yet not so concentrated as nuts, or lean 
meat. In milk are contained all the 
elements necessary to the up-building 
of the body, and if it can be made the 
basis of a meal occasionally it is a 
splendid food. 

Milk has, however, often been re¬ 
ferred to as a neutral food; that is, it 
can hardly be classed with the pro¬ 
teins or starches. This would permit 
its inclusion at, say, a porridge meal. 
But everything depends upon the in¬ 
dividual. If you are in robust health, 
eating perfectly in every other way, it 
will not hurt to take a little milk with 
your porridge; but if you are in a con¬ 
dition of ill health, the safest plan is to 
keep milk for a special meal, and take 
with it any fresh fruits and fresh 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 233 

vegetables that you may desire. This 
is the ideal way of taking milk. 

There is, however, a danger in tak¬ 
ing milk when in a serious condition of 
ill health. Milk should not then be 
taken. The best time to take milk is 
when all the disease or condition of ill 
health has been eradicated. Milk, in 
addition to feeding the body, may also 
feed the germs, causing ill health. Milk 
goes bad very quickly, and when the 
stomach and alimentary canal are al¬ 
ready in a putrid condition, the milk 
only aggravates it. That is the reason 
the milk diet is useless to start while 
one is in a poor condition of health. It 
is absolutely necessary to wait until a 
fast has cleaned up the body before the 
milk diet is taken. Simply to start in 
taking enormous quantities of milk 
every day is to invite trouble. That is 
why some people are up against the 
milk diet, because they do not precede 
it by a fast. Just remember that. 
Don’t condemn the milk diet if you 
take it on a putrid stomach. Take a 
fast, lasting four or five weeks; then 


234 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

take the milk diet, and you will be one 
of its advocates in future. 

In eradicating ill health it is very 
essential to understand the correct way 
to take an enema. To get the best re¬ 
sults, the water of the enema should be 
just below blood heat, the best tem¬ 
perature of all being about 80° to 85° F. 
This will assist in stimulating the bowel 
to action. 

First of all, inject about a pint of 
water; then expel it immediately. This 
is just to clear away any obstruction 
about the rectum. Then fill up the con¬ 
tainer to about three pints to two 
quarts, and let it flow slowly into the 
colon. Expel immediately, and wait 
until all possible contents of the colon 
have been evacuated. 

There is no need to put any soap 
or bicarbonate of soda or anything else 
in the water. It is better for it to be 
absolutely clean. 

The position in which it should be 
taken is lying on the right side, with 
the knees drawn up to the chin, or on 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 235 


the ground on all fours in a similar 
position. 

It is important not to acquire the 
habit of taking an enema, although no 
harm can come from taking an enema 
once a week. However, when first 
eliminating, an enema may be import¬ 
ant both morning and evening, if there 
is much poison to expel from the body, 
not only in the intestine itself, but that 
which will be thrown off by the various 
emunctories of the body as the clean¬ 
ing up process is going on. 

If you eat according to the schedules 
laid out in the foregoing pages, there 
will be no difficulty in the cleaning out 
of the intestine on its own. The con¬ 
stipation will go because the body is 
being treated properly. Therefore, 
there will be no need for an enema. 
If you find that you cannot evacuate 
the bowels at all in the day, it is much 
better to use the enema, and then set 
about getting rid of the cause of your 
constipation by conforming to the sug¬ 
gestions giving in the chapter of this 
book devoted to that subject. When 


23G Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

the motion takes place without assist¬ 
ance from an enema, then there is not 
the slightest use in taking the enema, 
that is, after, say, the first two weeks 
of cleaning up. 

With regard to constipation, it is 
very important to remember that it is 
mostly due to bad habits. People get 
into the habit of inhibiting bowel ac¬ 
tion, instead of doing all they possibly 
can to relieve the bowel at the slightest 
sign. Much of this is due to our civil¬ 
ization, which does not provide suffi¬ 
ciently for these needs. However, if 
you are at home during the cleaning up 
period, you can establish a habit of 
a morning evacuation and an evening 
one, and when the call comes during 
the day, don’t miss it while you have 
the convenience. 

The hot baths and other helps in 
elimination should only be used fre¬ 
quently during the first few weeks of 
cleaning up, while real ill health is ap¬ 
parent. The temperature of the bath 
should be between 108 and 110°F., and 
you should lie in the water until a good, 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 237 

healthy perspiration is forthcoming; 
then tuck away between good blankets 
after being thoroughly dried. 

When health has been re-established, 
there is no necessity to take these hot 
baths. Once in a week or two weeks 
will not do any harm, however. When 
health is re-established it is important 
to take the morning sponge down, 
which should be in water of about 
80°F., and should be followed by brisk 
toweling. 

A hot bath is excellent for taking 
away pain in rheumatism, headaches, 
neuritis, etc. The pain may be re¬ 
lived almost instantaneously by getting 
into a hot bath, as explained. However, 
one thing ought to be mentioned, that 
is that in taking a hot bath the blood 
is drawn away from the head, as it is 
also drawn away from the point of con¬ 
gestion causing the pain. But in the 
drawing of the blood away from the 
head, there is often a feeling of faint¬ 
ness experienced; in fact, some pa¬ 
tients may even faint while in the bath. 
This must be carefully watched for by 


238 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

another person present, but it is well 
to know that no harm can result from 
that fainting or from the faint feeling. 

I have not dealt with social diseases, 
nor have I dealt with many of the com¬ 
mon complaints. The latter are all 
eradicated on the same principles as 
given for the eradication of the com¬ 
plaints enumerated in this book. They 
are suffered only because of the con¬ 
dition of the body in a state of auto¬ 
intoxication. Eliminate the poisons, 
learn to eat correctly, live rightly, ex¬ 
ercise, get fresh air, think healthily, 
and health will be established, and the 
common complaints will no longer an¬ 
noy. 

With regard to the social diseases, I 
have purposely refrained from dealing 
with them. They involve such poisons 
as to warrant the specific attention of a 
physician in their combat. However, 
unless at the same time eliminative 
treatment and right eating are adopted, 
then there is much less hope of suc¬ 
cess. The only way to get these ter¬ 
rible scourges eliminated from the 


Eating to Correct Ill-Health 239 

body is to learn to eat correctly after 
undergoing a very radical course of 
elimination. 

It has often been said that it is 
doubtful if ever these diseases are 
cured. Sometimes, after many years, 
they break out again in a virulent form. 
The certain way to escape these at¬ 
tacks is to clean up the body by the 
principles of correct eating so as to 
maintain a clean, pure blood stream, 
and to keep the recuperative and de¬ 
fensive forces of the body at the high¬ 
est point of vitality, so that they will 
resist the poisonous forces that may be 
lurking in the numerous pockets of the 
body. 

When a condition of health has been 
restored, and you begin to eat correct¬ 
ly, then your own appetite will deter¬ 
mine how much you should eat. Pro¬ 
vided you eat correctly, there is no 
fear of overeating. You will, for the 
first time in your life, indulge a natural 
appetite, and this itself will be gov¬ 
erned by the amount of nourishment 
necessary for you to take. You will 


240 Eating to Correct Ill-Health 

find that, of course, you will not be 
able to eat so much perhaps as before, 
but I can assure you that you will en¬ 
joy every particle of food you eat. 
You will learn what the fresh juices of 
fruits taste like; you will learn the 
deliciousness of fresh vegetable salads, 
of raw celery, and raw cauliflower, of 
lettuce, and of other luscious vegetables 
Nature has provided. 

Eating correctly to avoid ill health 
does not mean going without. It does 
not mean rigid self-denial or hardship 
of any kind. It simply means that you 
learn how to eat so as to enjoy your 
food most and best, and at the same 
time build up a body which is disease 
proof. 


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General Principles of Food 
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